Recent content by dongfe

If you did say that, I would still lose the weight. If you said the opposite I would still lose the weight. Isn't this a site where you can post questions about physics? My question was simple, the things that you mentioned are obviously effected by losing 50lbs otherwise you wouldn't have...

Ice, of the following things "muscle recruitment, efficiency, vO2 max, maximum power output, lots and lots and lots of things" because I'm not sure what they are and how they work.. would losing 50lbs have a negative effect in anyway or do all this variables also add to the vertical if...

oh, i wrote that in repsonse to you, I hadn't checked for msgs after yours when I read that :) just curious as to what other variables there are other than the weight that have changed? thanks for your help everyone, i guess I was right but it still feels wrong lol. I guess I will lose the...

all I meant is only one thing is being changed, the mass of the person jumping, this should be fairly easy to figure out shouldn't it?

LOL, there has to be a way to figure this out.

"and let's assume I don't lose any strength in my legs.."

haha, you are right, I might take off like a rocket. I better do a follow up on escape velocity :S haha

I'm 230lbs and I jump about 36 inches, if I were to lose 50lbs and get down to 180lbs and let's assume I don't lose any strength in my legs.. how would I calculate how much higher I would be able to jump. I wrote some stuff down and I got the jump would increase by the same percentage of %...