Science of Guinness

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Very interesting.

But as a scientifically inclined friend of mine always says, "All we really know about science is that objects fall at 9.8m/sec. Combined that with the knowledge that you never attack Russia in the winter, and you'll be going places."
 
9.8 m/(s^2)
 
And even then, most people think that the distance objects cover is 9.8 meters every second.

In actuality, a sky diver in the freefall position moves towards the ground at a speed of about 54 m/s, but he accelerated to that velocity at a rate of 9.8 m/s^2


*the more you know*
 
sometimes i wish i had done HS later in life, that sort of stuff would actually interest me now
physics was great at the time, for the experiments, not for what you learned
 
Remind me what you do for a living again......

I think your friends might all actually be rocket scientists.....
 
The same guy from my above post would actually make a really great teacher. He can explain concepts in physics so well that the majority of a room full of drunks and stoners understand it.
 
And even then, most people think that the distance objects cover is 9.8 meters every second.

In actuality, a sky diver in the freefall position moves towards the ground at a speed of about 54 m/s, but he accelerated to that velocity at a rate of 9.8 m/s^2


*the more you know*
And you stop accelerating because of the force pushing back on you from the atmosphere.
 
And you stop accelerating because of the force pushing back on you from the atmosphere.

Terminal velocity. For the normal freefall position, it's about 122 mph for a human. But you can go faster by going into a nose dive. Felix Baumgartner frigging went 834 mph.
 
Terminal velocity. For the normal freefall position, it's about 122 mph for a human. But you can go faster by going into a nose dive. Felix Baumgartner frigging went 834 mph.
Where he was going 834mph the atmosphere was a lot less dense. He slowed down as he entered into the troposphere.
 
Where he was going 834mph the atmosphere was a lot less dense. He slowed down as he entered into the troposphere.
True. I actually never even watched it. But it's not uncommon for skydivers to hit nearly 300 mph in a nose dive.
 
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