Customer Voice. Free fall with air resistance time and velocity. Thank you for your questionnaire. Sending completion. As is probably obvious, the higher you are, the harder you land.
If that's not a decent argument against free soloing, I'm not sure what is. The calculator uses the standard formula from Newtonian physics to figure out how long before the falling object goes splat:. That point is called terminal velocity see this wikipedia article for more information. It depends a lot on your position — something shaped like a bullet will have a higher terminal velocity than something shaped like a flat pancake parallel to the earth, because the latter has more surface area exposed to air friction.
The calculator doesn't take any of this into account. As you can see from the graph above, you'd have to fall from higher than 50 meters above the ground for this to really matter much, and at that point, you'd be in enough trouble to not care much.
Skydivers, however, should go read the Wikipedia article. This is a javascript-based calculator. For you history buffs, the first version used a iteration implementation of Newton's method to compute the square root needed for some of the equations, because in the days of yore, many browsers didn't support sqrt natively.
The equations are standard and I verified them, but they're also partly taken from posters on on the old rec. Boggles the mind. Free fall distance and velocity. Thank you for your questionnaire.
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