Spiderman discovers a ticking bomb in a warehouse, with exactly 1 second left on it. He needs to escape from the warehouse before it blows up. The wall is 9 meters from him, is 20 meters high, and the open skylight in the ceiling is 10 meters from the wall. Spiderman is capable of accelerating at 72 meters/second² on the ground, wall, or ceiling, as well as leaping from either the ground to wall, or wall to ceiling, or ground to ceiling, or any combination. However, during a leap, he travels in a straight line only as fast as he was running at the time of the takeoff. Can he make it in time?
Note that 1) Spiderman takes a full second to achieve a speed of 72 m/sec, and 2) there is no additional implied "boost" upon takeoff on any flight, only the speed he was already travelling on a surface.
2007-05-31
20:11:16
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