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To: Pikachu_Dad

Rate is 9.8 m/s2

So first second is 9.8 meters drop. About 10 yards

It does not follow. AVERAGE rate is 4.9 m/sec, since it starts at 0 and increases to 9.8 m/sec at the end of 1 sec.

Hence drop is 4.9 meters, or 1/2 a t² as justified by this heuristic.

28 posted on 08/05/2014 7:43:04 PM PDT by dr_lew

To: dr_lew

Yes, I fixed that mistake

32 posted on 08/05/2014 7:52:29 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad (Impeach Sen Quinn)

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