Drop, was Re: Anvils

At 04:07 PM 11/3/00 -0800, Annie wrote:

>for nine days and nine nights before it struck the earth.

[snip]

>assume newtonian mechanics, and figure out how high
>Mt. Olympus is in meters to 2 sig figs.

Well, v=at so d=at^2/2, a=9.8m/s^2, t=9*24*60*60s so d=3.0e12 meters I think

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