30 Nov 11 07:57, TOM WALKER wrote to ROGER NELSON:


 RN>> A body falls at the rate of 32 feet per second per second.  In other
 RN>> words, mine was a guess.  What do you calculate?  (-:

 TW> That is the Acelleration Rate of a falling object. IE: the second 32
 TW> feet would take 1/2 second and so on until the rate was stabilized
 TW> by the air drag on the body

 TW> But because it was a 30 foot fall your Estimate is correct.

I assume you meant 30 inches.

I estimate that it would only take .078 seconds to fall 30 inches. Since
there is not another second involved in the fall, Roger didn't even have a
chance to accelerate to the next higher speed.

One tenth of a second is decimally written as .100. so yours and Roger's
estimation is incorrect. But, since it's in the ball park you now have a
base figure to use in your estimation of how fast he was falling.

Which is?

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