Re: Was Rocco Top Speed, now Cement Filled Yugo Physics Discussion

[Cory Fonger <scirocc09@yahoo.com>]

im taking physics this year, ill tell you when im done.

--- "Foxx (in a box)" <iraldly@otterbein.edu> wrote:
> > Ok, I may be missing something here, but isn't 130mph terminal
> > velocity for the average human being?  I haven't seen the formula
> to
> > see if mass has anything to do with it.......seems strange that a
> car
> > and a person would accelerate to the exact same speed...
> 
>   well, given the gravity constant is something like 8.32 m/sē, would
> it
> be plausible that if you were falling on top of, say the yugo, and
> jumped off with the equivalent force of the gravity, that you should
> be
> suspended in midair for a few thousands of a second before you hit
> the
> ground?
> 
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