If u jump into the water from a high distance, will it feel like hitting cement???

Answer 1

No... but if you don't land correctly, and you're high enough over the water, the effects can be the same.

Answer 2

The impact from a high elevation jump into water is similar to hitting cement in the fact that the sudden impact can possibly kill you. If you have ever belly flopped into a pool from a springboard a few feet above the surface, the impact of the water stings for a little while, so you could take that and correlate a possible pain rating for higher impacts.

Mythbusters did an episode where if someone dropped a hammer into the water before hitting the surface, then the initial hammer impact would offset the potential damage of the water. After several tests, not only was this myth busted completely, but the measured pressures at the point of impact were huge enough to render a human practically dead upon impact.

High divers are trained to hit the water in such a way that their bodies do not suffer those impact forces. If you happen to try a high dive yourself, then go feet first ... keep your feet crossed or tight together and have your arms crossed below your chin ... this will reduce the force of the water when you hit and most likely keep the more vulnerable parts of your anatomy intact.

Answer 3

yes, in fact if you throw a penny from a floor higher than the 8th floor on a building and it lands on someones head it could crack their skull. With water it has to be a real high distance up to feel like cement but even when you go water skiing or tubing and you hit the water hard it hurts. Also it depends on how you land, there are people that dive from cliffs head first and they are ok, so i guess it depends.

Answer 4

Actually, it would feel like hot death either on concrete or water. To answer the gist of your question, though, you would be better off hitting concrete, as far as survival is concerned.
Liquids lack the ability to be compressed - even more than concrete - which is why they are so useful in hydraulics. If one were to hit a body of water at terminal velocity, I would imagine a mushy red cloud that formerly was a person. Worse than concrete, rock or steel.
There may also be a sympathetic hydrostatic reaction - I don't know.
Don't try it out, though, unless Congress tries it first! ;-)

Answer 5

It depends on how you land, and it depends on whether the water is choppy or flat.

Basically, the great the surface area of impact when you hit the water (i.e. more of your body hitting at once), the greater the pain (cement like feeling).

Answer 6

No, but if you jump on cement from a high distance, it will feel like hitting water...

FYI: "high distance" doesn't really fit here, but I'm not going to help you any more...

Answer 7

Yes it would since YOUR speed is critical as to how the water behaves ie:The water molecules have to seperate to allow you " passage" the slower you are the less friction and the more time the water has to seperate, but if you are fast then you have a net increase on both Friction..and the water molecules have lsss time to seperate hence they have more " net force" if you watch "mythbusters" you might have seen the show where a smaller slower caliber bullet went further in the water..then a faster caliber, all for the above mentioned reasons, that is also true in our atmosphere since the " air acts as a liquid" unbder pressure and high flows see how military aircaft have a " bow wave" hope this helps :-) Eag;e

Answer 8

Yes because of the amount of energy you have when you hit the water the water will act as a solid rather than a fluid.

Answer 9

i'm just guessing..... but, it will probably feel like hitting water from a high distance. lol

Answer 10

As kids and teens, we used to jump off bridges @ 100 Ft and no one got hurt. Not sure what distance can kill you!