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Re: What is your team up to at your hotel?

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Originally Posted by Otaku View Post
I thought it over (and talked to our team leader who is also the freshman physics teacher and teaches this stuff) and you've got a point. I didn't take into account the acceleration and such. The Atrium is 147m tall, 47 stories, that's just about 3.1m/story.

I'll dig up my freshman science notebooks and look up the formulas.

Also, I didn't take into account wind resistance because I do my physics calculations in happy go lucky fun time physics land. Where resistance is nonexistant.
Okay, now that I know the real height of 147m. It would hit after 5.48 seconds traveling 53.67m/s (which is only .33m/s from terminal velocity).

I don't need to calculate the energy on that, I know it's gonna hurt

EDIT: Gotta agree with ya about resistance..... World would be so much easier if we just forgot about that