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Old Fri Feb 24, 2006, 01:43pm
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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Originally posted by SanDiegoSteve
Yeah, the last I remember, objects with mass fall to earth at a uniform 32 feet per second. Is this not correct, mccrowder?
Their velocity towards earth increases at that rate, yes. (Your statement seems to imply that the velocity itself is 32 fps, which is not true, except right at the end of the 1st second... but I didn't think that was what you meant).

Garth is right as well.
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