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Nevermind, as I attempted to rephrase the question as I believe I wasn't being clear I worked it out myself! Ha thanks for the help anyway!

I'm sorry. I want the acceleration that it experiences once it hits the ground to be 40 g's, assuming perfectly inelastic collision with the Earth.

Hi everyone, This may seem like a simple problem but it seems to be escaping me. Say I have an object of a given mass, m, and I want it to impact the Earth at an acceleration of 40 g's. What height, h, must I drop the object at? Again, I feel like I'm just missing a step so please let...