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A whole lot. It depends on how fast it is going. See http://measurespeed.com/deceleration-calculator.php http://measurespeed.com/deceleration-calculator.php for
by rylee 11y ago
A whole lot. It depends on how fast it is going. See http://measurespeed.com/deceleration-calculator.php http://measurespeed.com/deceleration-calculator.php for a quick-and-dirty overview. Gravity accelerates at at 9.8m/s², so if it fell for one second before impacting the ground, and took (for instance) 0.05 seconds to deform before coming to a halt, it'd have experienced 8.91 Gs of shock.
- spicyj 11y agoOne second is a long time. That's a drop of 16 feet?
- rylee 11y agoFor the purpose of conjecture, yes :-)
- vacri 11y ago> 0.05 seconds to deform before coming to a halt I always found it amusing that hard drives were rated in the hundreds of Gs until someone reminded me that 'time to stop' when dropped on a hard surface was very short indeed...