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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