From: Michael S. Lorrey (mike@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 13:20:08 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
> > 12000 miles * 5280ft/mi = 6960000 ft
> > 6960000 ft = (32 ft/s^2)(t^2)/2
> > t^2 = 435000 s^2 = 11 minutes falling time from top of beanstalk at 1 g...
>
> Mike, Ill check this tomorrow but one thing I see immediately is if you
> are out one earth diameter from the surface, your acceleration is only
> 1/9 what it would be at the deck, since acceleration is inversely proportional
> to distance squared and you are triple the distance from the cm of the
> earth. I havent figured out what the fall time is tho. im sure Doug Jones
> will have calced it before I get back on tomorrow. {8-]
>
I knew there had to be a wrench in the monkey.
> And Mike, since we are using those ugly English units, we might as
> well express velocities in horseturds per fortnight... {8^D spike
Due to the predominantly US membership, I made it in Her Majesties Royal units,
though I admit that even when I was in school in the 80's (high school physics),
english units were used at least half the time.
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