Falling Definition and 1000 Threads

I tried out this free fall calculator, and it says that it would take 4.3 minutes to fall to Earth from 200 miles up. (The altitude of the space shuttle, but no horizontal velocity.) This intuitively seems very fast to me, even assuming no atmosphere. Am I using it wrong? It also gave me a...

Theoretically, if a person falls from outer space to earth, and they hold 10000 rolls of toilet paper by their loose end, will that slow their fall down? Can you do that with a rocket booster returning to earth, keeping its speed subsonic all the way? On more serious note, what happens if you...

In the "Andromeda Nebula" novel the author (Yefremov, 1957) describes dramatic story of a starship being inadvertently directed into the neighborhood of the "Infrared (Iron) Star" - so it was not discovered by navigators until too late. The ship is on the return route and doesn't have enough...

Hi! I am a high school physics teacher in Korea. I have a question for you, a physics expert. A rod that falls while rotating from the end of a table A rod of mass m and length L is inclined by theta o (thera_o > 0) when the center of the rod is in contact with the end of the table, and the...

The usual approach for solving for the time it takes to fall to the center of the earth neglects air resistance & uses Hooke's Law. But if you solve it "the hard way"... Gme*m/r^2 = ma me = 4/3 rho pi r^3 G * 4/3 rho pi r = a separate variables, integrate twice r*Ln(r) - r = 2/3 G rho pi t^2 The...

I have heard that an person falling toward a black hole would 1) start to "freeze" from the viewpoint of an outside observer as the infalling person's (call him Bob) time dilation slowed Bob's time to a crawl, and 2) from Bob's viewpoint it would seem that he simply falls through the horizon...

I find it interesting that the more massive the black hole, the weaker the fall acceleration at the distance of the Schwarzschild radius - that's why you wouldn't necessarily notice anything special in the event horizon.

In dire need of help, someone please explain the correct method for this, if its not possible what should i write in the conclusion for this?

A male, 173 cm, 69 kg, faints, falls backwards, his fall is stopped a bit because he falls with his left arm against a cupboard in the bathroom, this happens when he is about 45 degrees with his body compared to the ground, the bathroom has tiles but there is a little flimsy mat to stand on...

I am aware that this question is very simple and basic. Using ##y(t)=y_0+v_{0,y}t-\frac {1}{2}gt^2## we can find distance as a function of time: ##|y_1-y_2|=|y_0+v_{0,y}t|=-y_0- v_{0,y}t## I assumed the downward direction to be negative. So as I wrote ##D(t)=-y_0- v_{0,y}t##. It tells that the...

all i could accomplish was calculating the distance between P and the ceiling in a horizontal line(6)

Hi again all, hope you are all doing great and enjoying the spring as well as nice weather. This is sort of a continuation thread of my falling in love thread here that I posted a while back but with a new question witch is: Can I get the same effect to live longer by falling in love, having sex...

I'm curious about impact on falling object, so i have taken initiative to solve this problem. I considered only force on the falling object would be its weight and taken F=mg. With only limited data m=.25kg and drop height h=1m. Pondering on this consideration practically, it will have more...

Just saw this Youtube Short by Veritasium. The idea is that two identical chain ladders are dropped at the same time. One hits a table shortly after release, while the other continues to free fall. Curiously, after the bottom of the first ladder hits the table, the remainder still in free fall...

Since there is no friction : $$ m \ddot{x} = 0 $$ (no x motion).For the kinetic energy , I've tried: $$ K = 1/2 I_{cm} \dot{\alpha}^2 + 1/2 m v^2_cm = 1/2 I_{cm} \dot{\alpha}^2 + 1/2 m \dot{z}^2$$ . Giving me a weird expression , shouldn't the kinetic energy just be half the the moment...

Just yesterday evening I saw a video of a few minutes where metal disks with holes in them were let fall into a basin of water.The water went up in twisted columns and made the most astounding and beautiful patterns. I thought I would show it to other people who might be interested - but I have...

If (a) is correct, the answer would be 34.3m. If (b) is correct, the answer would be 9.8m. I want to know exactly which one is meant by the question and the reason behind that. Personally i think its a.

I don't understand the difference between part c and d. After compressing the spring, the elevator bounds back and moves before coming to rest in both cases. What is the difference? Thank you.

There are a number of videos of simulations of this. They all end with complete blackness. This seems wrong to me because light is concentrated by the black hole. There should be more light closer to the center. On second thought I guess it is OK. While the observer would encounter more...

If I am not wrong, F = 2*10*9.81*4/0.2 = 3924N (0.2m considering 5% stretch in 4m long rope)

We have trams in Melbourne, and this weekend I watched a pigeon on the tracks fly up and along the route as the tram came along, being hit by the windscreen (it survived, no worries). Yet it could of flown up and across and escaped because the tram was higher than it was wide. It prompted the...

I don't understand what I have done wrong in part (c) I have the initial velocity for the second part of the motion and have the final velocity zero and then the net work done is W_mg + W_Fs and the actual answer for x is 2.37m Could I get some help/tips please, thanks in advance. Here is my...

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I need help with this homework question and I'm blanking out. Can anyone help me to answer this question correctly.

Since the brick has fallen 30m and the acceleration of gravity is 10m/s^2 the brick would have fallen 3 seconds speed of brick would then be 30/3 leaving the answer at 10m/s?I am new to physics and this question has left me stumped

if a body is pivoted at a point it is quite easy to calculate the torque as we know the axis of rotation. but, if a body is under free fall and we apply a force of F Newtons at a distance of x from its centre of mass , then how do we determine the axis of rotation?

I'm writing a paper on the movie realism of the A-team movie. The basic situation is that the guys are falling inside a tank with terminal velocity into a lake. I'm stumped on how to calculate the force that is created on impact, though I imagined it being done with some kind of pulse equation...

EDIT for clarity: I solved the question, just asking for if the explanations make sense and if the mechanical energy is considered to be conserved before and after the collision due to reasons listed below the photo. I hope this image is readable (grr, scanner is janky). I'm guessing the...

Is the Earth getting closer to the sun from gravity?

To keep things "simple", the black hole is 1E30 kilograms. The statite (stationary satellite, blue) hovers above the hole at a fixed location (twice the Schwarzschild radius from the singularity) by tremendous acceleration. The statite drops a probe (green) that begins to fall toward the hole at...

So in class today, we were talking about how if you fire a bullet aimed at a falling target and release the target and the bullet at the exact same time, they will surely collide. I asked if air resistance (since it’s not a constant force) wouldn’t affect the collision and my teacher didn’t have...

I do not fully understand why a falling neodymium magnet is decelerated in a vertical copper pipe. It is usually explained by Lenz's law, two induced currents generate an upward force that counteracts the force of gravity. (link) However, I assume this upward force has to be generated by the...

In the solution for question ##(a)##, it is written that the equation of translational motion for the center of mass is ##N-mg=ma_y## Why ##N## is also included inside of the equation? In my opinion, the rail does not exerting force (N) to slow down the mass' acceleration. Instead, the purpose...

This question does not have numbers, so I'm stumped. Here's my thinking. (I), the gain in KE is less than the loss in GPE is correct according to the key, but I think I don't understand this conceptually. Can you ask me questions to make me think about this a bit more? I can't even form...

Hello again. I don't believe there are rules about posting twice in a day. I'm not a student and I answer Physics questions as a hobby, but I've only just started learning, so please help me out. I'm answering IBDP Physics questions. Here's my thinking: KE is not a vector quantity, so it's...

Sorry for the bad english. This might sound stupid but I am pretty new the physics and i can't seem to find what formula to use on this problem when only the mass, gravity and height of the fall is given. and i can't find a similar problem in the book, could someone give me any pointers? Thanks...

I am under the impression that an outside observer would see things redshifted as the person they are observing approaches the event horizon. So, it seems reasonable that someone from inside the black hole would see incoming light blueshifted. Is this inaccurate? Why or why not? If it is...

Assuming no friction anywhere, no drag and perfect inelastic collision Using conservation of mechanical energy i can determine the rotational speed of the rod right before collision occurs. mgh=1/2*i*w^2 center of mass falls 1/2*L so we have: M*g*1/2*L = 1/2*(1/3*M*L^2)*w^2 Solving for w...

If you had a tube a couple of miles long filled with very compressed air, say 6,000 PSI, would an object you dropped in it fall very slowly? Even a heavy object like an anvil, how long would it take to drop?

So I'm working on a project that involves the design of an O'Neill Cylinder, and there was a consideration that I had never made before. Say you are in a cylinder that is generating enough force for 1G in its spin. This means that while you are spinning, the motion means that your body is being...

Firstly, There is something I want to clarify. When the system starts moving, parts of the chain that still lies on the table, which have mass ## \frac {(L- y_0)M} {L}##, will be pulled by the force that the hanging chain's weight exert,right? If yes, then : As far as I know, the formula ##F=...

Hi, I'm currently looking into the forces exerted on a cable if the cable was to go from slack to taut due to a falling object that is pivoted about a lower hinge - such as a drawbridge but instead of slowly lowering, there is slack in the cable causing the bridge to freely rotate about the...

I weight 90.7kg. I fell 10.05m landing on soild concrete. how do I express the "power of my impact? in G-force? A relitive weight? I am self taught in very basic physics after a high school education.

I made a new version of the falling cat video, with narration. It explains how cats turn around while having zero net angular momentum during the fall:

Ball X has mass 0.03kg. It falls vertically from rest from a window that is 30 m above the ground. Ball Y has mass 0.01kg. At the same time that Ball X starts to fall, Ball Y is projected vertically upwards from ground level directly towards Ball X. The initial speed of Ball Y is 20 m/s...

My reasoning: Gradient of graph = v/s = t t increasing therefore gradient increasing So graph B The answer is C.

I actually have no clue. Found a video that demonstrates the problem: Can someone help pls?