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Thread #89330 Message #1684612
Posted By: greg stephens
03-Mar-06 - 07:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: things men/ women do better and why
Subject: RE: BS: things men/ women do better and why
The thing about weights being dropped from a height is that heavy weights dont actually fall at the same speed as light ones, whatever stories you here about Galileo and cannonballs of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In the case of human bodies, the air friction drag increases with the surface area(roughly), whereas the gravitational force downwards increases proportionally with the weight. The bigger you are, the greater is the ratio of the weight to the surface area. Accordingly, as women are on average smaller than men, their terminal velocity is on average lower. The effect is very very small with a pair of different size cannonballs, slightly larger with a big man and a small woman, but much more noticable with a stone and a feather, or a dog and a mouse. Try it and see.