thanks, I'll definitely do that. i want to learn so much more and eventually be able to use my knowledge for purposes other than contemplating scenario forces or whatever else.
as far as the reason for my original post, the situation i was pulling the numbers from was an unfortunate accident that happened in milwaukee, wi yesterday. a 27,000 pound chuck of a parking structure broke off and killed somebody. my mother was pretty upset about it when she heard about it...
i'm not a student now. i was in college a few years ago for computer networking administration, but it didn't work out very well because of financial reasons... I've been kind of between a rock and a hard place for a while as far as that part of my life goes, always trying to find work suitable...
well, maybe i did my math wrong.. maybe not...
11793kg is dropped 9 meters
so it's velocity before impact is 13.281566172707194 m/s
and it's KE just before impact is 1040142.6000000001 J
and figuring that distance traveled after impact was .019 meters i got 54,744,347.368421055 Newtons...
i'm a physics fanatic.
i love the concepts of science and physics in general.
so this isn't for homework or anything just for the fascination of the science.
i need some help putting a number into perspective and instead of just googling for methods to figure it out, i wanted to join a...