A carpenter on the roof of a building accidentally drops herhammer. As the hammer falls it passes two windows of equal height,a) Is the increase in seed of the hammer as it drops past window 1greater than, less than or equal to the increase in speed as itdrops past window 2? b) Choose the best explanation from thefollowing:
I. The greater seed at window 2 results in a greater increase inspeed.
II. Constant acceleration means the hammer speeds up the sameamount for each window.
III. The hammer spends more time dropping past window 1.

a) the speed increment of the hammer as it drops past the first window, is greater than that of the speed of the hammer as it drops past the second window. This can also be translated as saying that the hammer spent more time at the second window.

b) III

The best answer would be answer III, The hammer spends more time dropping past window 1, which I had already included in my explanation in (a) above.