Chapter 1: Q78P (page 166)
The Flying Leap of a Flea.High-speed motion pictures (3500 frames/second) of a jumping 210 - ugflea yielded the data to plot the flea鈥檚 acceleration as a function of time, as shown in Fig. P5.78. (See 鈥淭he Flying Leap of the Flea,鈥 by M. Rothschild et al., Scientific American,November 1973.) This flea was aboutlong and jumped at a nearly vertical takeoff angle. Using the graph, (a) find the initialnet external force on the flea. How does it compare to the flea鈥檚 weight? (b) Find the maximumnet external force on this jumping flea. When does this maximum force occur? (c) Use the graph to find the flea鈥檚 maximum speed.

Short Answer
(a) Theinitial net external force on the flea is which is 62.5 times bigger than the flea鈥檚 weight.
(b) The maximum net external force on this jumping flea is and it occurs at .
(c) the maximum speed of flea is 1.51 m/s .