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To: krb
I promise she was experiencing 1 g of acceleration.

At some instant she was, from the earth's frame of reference -- but as soon as her body's velocity toward earth increased, the drag from the viscous air molecules increased. At terminal velocity (probably never reached) the acceleration would have been zero g's.

39 posted on 06/26/2009 10:16:11 PM PDT by zipper
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To: zipper

She was experiencing non-zero acceleration for the vast majority of her fall.


41 posted on 06/26/2009 10:18:35 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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