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At what speed can a person jump in zero g?
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[QUOTE="Hornbein, post: 6832480, member: 489043"] I jump on Earth. The acceleration I apply to my body is (legs - gravity). I get little height, so the accel is a little more than gravity. Let's say it is 10m/s^2. Next we need to know the amount of time that this acceleration is applied. We don't know that yet, but we do know that this acceleration was applied for a distance of one meter. My calculus is terminally rusty so I can't solve this. My guess is that the answer is two meters per second. A better jumper could get twice as much acceleration and get three meters per second. Of course this is all an estimate because the force varies in time in some complicated ergonomic way. [/QUOTE]
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