A typical hip pad can reduce the person's speed of falling to 1.3m/s over a distance of 2.0 cm. find the acceleration (assumed to be constant) of this person's hip while she is slowing down and the force the pad exerts on it.
M of person = 55kg
Distance fell = 1.0m
Time until impact = 0.35 seconds
Initial velocity = 3.43m/s
This is the second half of a problem, I couldn't write the whole thing. Any help would be appreciated, I'm not sure what to do. Thanks!

Question

A typical hip pad can reduce the person's speed of falling to 1.3m/s over a distance of 2.0 cm. find the acceleration (assumed to be constant) of this person's hip while she is slowing down and the force the pad exerts on it.
M of person = 55kg
Distance fell = 1.0m
Time until impact = 0.35 seconds
Initial velocity = 3.43m/s
This is the second half of a problem, I couldn't write the whole thing. Any help would be appreciated, I'm not sure what to do. Thanks!

anonymous · Answer

Heres the first half:
People (especially the elderly) who are prone to falling can wear hip pads to cushion the impact on their hip from a fall. Experiments have shown that if the speed at impact can be reduced to 1.30 or less, the hip will usually not fracture. Let us investigate the worst-case scenario, in which a 69.0 person completely loses her footing (such as on icy pavement) and falls a distance of 1.00 , the distance from her hip to the ground. We shall assume that the person's entire body has the same acceleration, which, in reality, would not quite be true. a)With what speed does her hip reach the ground.

anonymous · Answer

Actually, the values for the mass in that paragraph are different. Refer to my original values instead for mass = 55kg