2006-08-30 13:32:44 · 22 answers · asked by kelleygaither2000 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
No the penny would be blown back up on the building by the winds . Check out Mythbusters they did a story on this.
2006-08-30 13:36:24 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have to go with Mack L on this... It's terminal velocity would not become that great, due to atmospheric conditions and wind and the shape of it..... however ever dropped a pointy tipped projectile, say a large rifle bullets, given its shape and tendacy to fall pointy-side down, it could prob kill you if it struck the right are of your body... What most dont realize is that when you fire a gun straight up in the air, the acceleration of that bullet once it comes out of the barrel is equal to the relative gravity or you can assume the given -9.8 m/s/s.. this means that the bullet is constantly changing speed at a rate of 9.8 meters every second.. so if the beggining speed is 120 m/s/s coming out of the barrel, then one second later it is 110 m/s/s, roughly, this continous untilit reaches 0, and the bullet stops travelling up, and then starts travelling down at the same rate of acceleration... since acceleration was gravity and gravity remained constant, when the bullet gets back down to the ground it is travelling at 120 m/s/s!
Are you still reading?
Great cause i lost interest........
2006-08-30 14:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by gnet_162000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, after a certain period of falling the penny hits its maximum speed (terminal velocity). That speed is not fast enough to penetrate the human skull. But if hits a bald man just right, he'll have a reeeeeaal tiny tattoo of Lincoln on his head!
2006-08-30 13:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by William K 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No it won't. Ever seen the show "Mythbusters" on the Discovery Channel? They tested out that one and there's no way a penny could build up enough velocity to kill a person.
2006-08-30 13:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by Sager 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if it didn't kill them, it would hurt like hell!
i know that bolts will develop a lethel velocity when dropped from a high distance---but they're bulkier and wouldn't have as much wind resistance as a flat penny.
i wouldn't want to be anywhere close if people were chucking pennies off the empire state building.
2006-08-30 13:41:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A penny has a terminal velocity due to friction with air, so it can't keep accelerating at 9.8m/s. It can't travel fast enough to kill you, otherwise people will be killed by hail all the time. I wonder if it could kill you on a large planet with no atmosphere?
2006-08-30 13:41:32 · answer #6 · answered by Mack L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is attainable, an updraft won't be able to levitate a penny for any length of time, it is going to finally fall. it is going to attain a velocity of approximately a hundred and twenty MPH and an merchandise that length, vacationing at that velocity ought to genuinely harm a guy or woman unlucky sufficient to be struck by utilising it. might it reason a head harm sever sufficient to reason demise? it is attainable, yet no longer likely.
2016-10-01 02:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by gulini 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it would be really hard to hit someone from way up there but if you do it just depends were the penny would hit them
2006-08-30 13:39:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Mythbusters have already busted that myth. No.
2006-08-30 13:38:56 · answer #9 · answered by S.A.M. Gunner 7212 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it probably wont but u would do that y.................???????????? just a little lost it really should just hurt for a while but if it hit them in the soft spot or temple then it gets serious injury or could be fatal
2006-08-30 13:36:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋