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How Long Will It Take A Steel Ball To Fall One Meter Starting From Rest?

I have no formula for this; I'm working off prior knowledge and general intuition. So far I have: 9.8 m/s^2 (acceleration in free fall)/2 = 4.9 m/s (average speed over 1 second). So in one second the...
04:58 Tue 12th Feb 201318 answers, last by vascop 21:00 Wed 13th Feb 2013

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