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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo
OK, students, now consider the case where both the object being dropped and the surface it's dropped upon do not yield. That is, reduce the distance in which it decelerates from 1 cm to zero.
What kind of G force does the object endure then? What becomes the limiting factor?
(All you engineers and physics teachers out there, shhhh...)
Don
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That's an impossible situation, but if it were to happen both the object and the floor would experience an infinite force.
-Resident (confused) physics student