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Speed of a person jumping off a building?
So according to your workings... Terminal velocity of a falling person = 196 km per hour = 54m/s Reached after 4.5s I.E. After falling 245m Fell for roughly 3s after hitting terminal Total time = 7.5s// Hopefully I didn't get that simple Maths wrong. But there is one thing I...- Sylvias
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Speed of a person jumping off a building?
Alright, I need this information not for science homework, but for writing a short story. You see, I am very particular about the tiny details, and in the story there is going to be a superhuman jumping off a building. I want to know the speed of such a jump to dramatise the description, but...- Sylvias
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