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The greatest height reported for a jump into an airbag is 99.4m by stuntman Dan Koto. He jumped from rest from the top of the vegas world hotel and casino. He struck the airbag at a speed of 39 m/s (88 mi/h).
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for this you can use:
vf^2=v0^2+2ad where vf=final speed, vo=initial speed, a=accel, d=dist here, v0=0, a=9.8m/s/s and d=99.4m, so: vf^2=0+2(9.8)(99.4)=1948.2->vf=44.13 m/s you can see air friction had some effect (lowering speed to 39m/s) but not a huge effect |
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