Paper 4, Section I, A
Part IA, 2017
A tennis ball of mass is projected vertically upwards with initial speed and reaches its highest point at time . In addition to uniform gravity, the ball experiences air resistance, which produces a frictional force of magnitude , where is the ball's speed and is a positive constant. Show by dimensional analysis that can be written in the form
for some function of a dimensionless quantity .
Use the equation of motion of the ball to find .