10 Amazing Free Fall Survivors - Oddee.com (free fall, vesna vulovic )
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10 Amazing Free Fall Survivors - Oddee.com (free fall, vesna vulovic )
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I wonder if their mums got any credit for them ;)
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my bb curve survived being run over by my 3/4 ton truck, just had a little bit of a dark spot on the screen after
happens to me me also my bold fall from 2nd floor and still alive...
With the quoted mix of metric and imperial units for a single calculation it seems someone else missed a fundamental lesson too. :D
Think the case it was in would have changed things a bit?
BTW, Anyone ever toss a 9000 on the counter or a desk? Now that is solid.
Being able to clearly view a screen is required for *me* to call it a working device.
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Yeah 13,500 feet onto grass and dirt is probably less damaging than 6-8 feet on hard concrete.
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Maybe he could pair a Bluetooth headset to the iPhone and still make voice activated calls. Still usable to a certain extent ... I guess the guy should just be glad the iPhone didn't land on someone's noggin. Death most likely would have been the result.
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That is an awesome story, he got really lucky, I dont care what the brand is because nothing is designed for that case or no.
Oh I know, I didn't do any calculations unlike some people. I'm just saying that kind of height doesn't matter. I know mgh=0.5mv^2 doesn't work for many reasons. Air resistance isn't in that equation, which depends on the speed. Also, as stated, the density of air changes with height. Also, the force of gravity changes with height if you want to get picky.
And, the phone fell on a roof which could be sloped effectively opening up the possibility that the phone hit it on an angle making the impact less severe.
Trust me, I'm doing a PhD in physics, I know this stuff.
I think we can all agree that Blackberries are generally more resilient to impact than iphones. The case helped to keep the phone together, but the glass would have shattered regardless.
Now, the storm with:
a screen that absorbs impact in three dimensions....
a lock and mute button that can absorb some pushing at the top
THAT would be interesting to see if the screen shatters....although tests like this depend on too many factors. I would say that without a case, the phone is toast, but with any case on, the phone would be useable but damaged but there's a good chance the screen would be fine because it moves to absorb the shock.
If you run the calculations yourself, you'll see that calculations were all performed in metric and converted at the end into imperial for people who use imperial units. Further, I was just stating some of the constants in imperial from the article, but made sure they were converted when running my calculations.
Check it yourself :) I won't say I'm perfect, but I do make sure I run straight metric when doing Physics calculations.
Possibly. What happens when the phone hits the ground is the phone pushing against the Earth with some normal Force (in this case, all coming from the gravitational pull of Earth), and when it hits the ground, the Earth responds with an equal but opposite force. Now, some of the energy transfer here is absorbed by the ground conditions, some transfered as heat, and some transfered back into kinetic energy for the phone.
That being said, with the case on the phone, the phone would transfer energy to the case, then to the ground and vice versa on the way back up. That being said, it means you have a middle man that can, essentially, help diffuse or absorb some of the energy from going back to the phone.
The main question here is how much energy or Force does the case cushion, and would it have made a difference? I couldn't tell you....experimentation would be the best bet real world, or knowing the case composition could lead to advanced calculations on energy transfer, but I'll admit that's a little out of my area of expertise in Physics.
See my comment above about energy transfer. On the one hand, concrete is not going to "dampen" the fall compared to, say, grass; however, you'll find that the energy of the fall from 13,500 feet is much greater due to the speeds involved, so you can't make that assumption right away :)
Yep yep, exactly. That's why the calculations I did are rough: there's no way to know the exact air density at the time nor was I adjusting for that change or force of gravity.
As you said, many factors. The type of case would affect the damage done to the phone obviously, and also I'm not sure how much help the screen will do at that sort of energy and force levels on impact. It could be nothing, or it could make all the difference....
And, the phone fell on a roof which could be sloped effectively opening up the possibility that the phone hit it on an angle making the impact less severe.
Trust me, I'm doing a PhD in physics, I know this stuff.
I think we can all agree that Blackberries are generally more resilient to impact than iphones. The case helped to keep the phone together, but the glass would have shattered regardless.
Now, the storm with:
a screen that absorbs impact in three dimensions....
a lock and mute button that can absorb some pushing at the top
THAT would be interesting to see if the screen shatters....although tests like this depend on too many factors. I would say that without a case, the phone is toast, but with any case on, the phone would be useable but damaged but there's a good chance the screen would be fine because it moves to absorb the shock.
So to test this theory, we'll need I think 3 iPhone 4s, 1 iPhone 4 case (hard shell) and one iPhone 4 case (soft shell), 3 BlackBerry Storms, 1 hard case, 1 soft case, a private plane, a certified skydiver, and a $.99 G-Force measuring app :)