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Undergrad Final velocity of a falling object
I was reading The History of Physics by Isaac Asimov, and I came across this passage. "Imagine a body dropped first from a height of 1000 kilometers, then from 2000 kilometers, then from 3000 kilometers, and so on. The drop from 1000 kilometers would result in a velocity of impact v_{1}. If...