2006-09-16 08:36:03 · 8 answers · asked by Lolly 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Please don't do it next weekend. Me and the bird are havin' a weekend away there!
2006-09-16 08:42:13 · answer #1 · answered by Moorglademover 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can work this out for yourself. The acceleration of free-fall is given as 10m per second per second in other words after 1 second you are travelling at 10 meters per second after 2 second 20 meters per second and so on. If you can find out the height of Blackpool tower you can calculate the time it would take you to fall, you weight is not relevant here. Terminal velocity is given at approx 100 miles an hour for a free falling body (cant remember what this is in meters per second) but i am guessing for Blackpool tower this is not relevent.
2006-09-16 15:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by pete m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neglecting the effects of air and fighting out the same cause which Galileo did, it would take the same as that for any other object.
If h is the height of the tower and g acceleration due to gravity, the time taken will be sqrt(2*g*h)
2006-09-16 15:41:48 · answer #3 · answered by panswer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would depend on how big you were. If that weight was spread over a big enough distance the wind resistance would slow the speed of descent. I've heard that terminal velocity for humans though was roughly 180 mph in a free fall
2006-09-16 15:44:29 · answer #4 · answered by Hans B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your weight is irrelavent. all items in feefall accellerate to a maximun speed. around 120mph, which is 166 feet per second.. i dont know how high blackpool tower is, but 800feet, you would be all over the road in around 4.8 seconds.
2006-09-16 15:40:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes 64236472654643756734836546543856864875465876 Hrs.
2006-09-16 15:48:52 · answer #6 · answered by angel_catz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try it and see,let me know how you got on
2006-09-16 17:15:27 · answer #7 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dunno - try it and see...
2006-09-17 06:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Autumn Breeze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋