The Top Thrill Dragster stratacoaster at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Ohio uses a hydraulic launching system to accelerate riders from 0 to 52.3 m/s in 4.5 seconds before climbing a completely vertical 421-foot hill.

Paige is the tallest player on South's Varsity volleyball team. She is in spiking position when Julia gives her the perfect set. The 0.230-kg volleyball is 2.42 meters above the ground and has a speed of 1.00 m/s. Paige spikes the ball, doing 9.47 Joules of work on it.

According to ABC's Wide World of Sports show, there is the "Thrill of victory and the agony of defeat". On March 21 of 1970, Vinko Bogataj was the Yugoslavian entrant into the World Championships held in former West Germany. By his third and final jump of the day, heavy and persistent snow produced dangerous conditions along the slope. Midway through the run, Bogataj recognized the danger and attempted to make adjustments in order to terminate his jump. Instead, he lost his balanced and tumbled and flipped off the slope into the dense crowd. For nearly 30 years thereafter, footage of the event was included in the introduction of ABC's infamous sports show and Vinco has become known as "The agony of defeat" icon.

In April of 1976, Chicago Cub slugger Dave Kingman hit a home run which cleared the Wrigley Field fence and hit a house located 530 feet (162 m) from home plate. Suppose that the 0.140-kg baseball left Kingman's bat at 47.8 m/s and that it lost 11.6% of its original energy by the time it cleared the stadium wall at a height of 21.3 meters above the height at which the bat contacted the ball. Determine the speed of the ball as it passed above the wall.

Connor (m=66.1 kg) is competing in the state diving championship. He leaves the springboard from a height of 3.15 meters above the water surface with a speed of 4.94 m/s in the upward direction.

Suzie Lavtaski is moving with a kinetic energy of 7800 Joules and at an elevation relative to the bottom of the ski slope that provides her with a potential energy of 11000 Joules. If Suzie has a kinetic energy of 21980 Joules at the bottom of the slope, then what quantity of mechanical energy did she gain through the use of her poles? Neglect the effect of resistive forces.

In another episode of Don't Do This At Home, a 61.9-kg man steps off a 1.34-m high bench and lands with his knees and ankles locked. The only cushion for his fall is the 0.59-cm give in the pads of his shoes. Calculate the average force exerted upon his body by the ground as he abruptly stops.

Monte works at the local grain elevator during the summer months. He uses the lift to hoist a 131.8-Newton sack of grain to a storage area 20.5 meters above the ground. 

Thinking about Physics (as she usually does), Latasha does the following experiment. She gets her bike moving at 15.8 m/s as she approaches the paved hill at Flick Park. She quits pedaling and allows her 81.6-kg bike (her mass included) coast to a stop as it rises up the hill. 

In another episode of Destroyed in Seconds, a 20.2-kg rock teeters on the edge of a 98.5-meter high cliff. A gentle nudge causes it to fall to the ground below. Assume negligible air resistance.