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Re: The physics of flipping

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Originally Posted by lemiant View Post
did I overlook anything?
Yes, what Don said:

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Originally Posted by DonRotolo View Post
I'm more worried about acceleration with a minus sign - like when I am moving at 12 fps and stop dead when I hit the bump. If F=Ma, and a is going from 12 to zero in an umptosecond, F is going to have some serious magnitude