Answer:
0.40s. He's dead, Jim.
Explanation:
The block accelerates at a rate of [tex]9.81 ms^-^2[/tex]. The moment it's 14 meters from the ground, it has traveled 39 meters, in about [tex]39=\frac12(9.81)t^2 \rightarrow 2.82 s[/tex].
For the man to dodge, the time left is the distance the block takes to go down to 2 meters from ground, or 51 meters from its starting point. Which translates in [tex]51=\frac12(9.81)t^2\rightarrow 3.22s[/tex]
He has thus less than half a second ([tex]0.40s[/tex] to be exact) to dodge.
