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Old April 29th, 2004, 03:41 PM

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and Lastly, if you run down an almost vertical surface, you could potentially reach terminal velocity.


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Old April 30th, 2004, 04:55 AM
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and Lastly, if you run down an almost vertical surface, you could potentially reach terminal velocity.


You owe me a cup of coffe!

* Turns his keyboard upside down to try to get all the coffe out *


And a keyboard!


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Default Re: OT: How fast can people run, how high can they jump, how hard can they think?

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As for jumping off a building or running down an almost-vertical surface, I don't like how the word 'terminal' velocity sounds.
Actually the 'terminal velocity' is not a problem - at least until you reach bottom!

BTW does anyone know if there IS a terminal velocity in AIRLESS conditions?
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Terminal velocity only operates in atmospheres. Or so is my understanding of it.

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/termv.html
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As for maximum running speed. You might find this interesting.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/...tSolvesMy.html
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