drop test simulation?
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??\n\nYou mean like dropping a computer off a roof? Im all for that!! Tell me if you find anything good\n\n\nIve once seen these guys destroy an XBOX360 after getting donations from Anti-gamers. It was totally sweet!!!
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Bounce - System of a Down
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fill water balloons with different amounts of water and drop them at the same height to see if they fall differently.  =)
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I would bet dropping and fast any one looking to buy should read this first.\nhttp://www.breakingbubble.com/index.htm
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Abi,\nu can try a few simple projects like Air Resistance,etc\ntry the link i have given below. it would prove useful to you.\nall the best for your success.\nFor more details, mail me @\ngautambarathwaj@yahoo.com
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Try: allaboutphysics.com I think that might help.
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I'm sure someone's said this but:\n\nTake a yardstick.  Hold in the air, vertically.  Have your test subject put their hands out as if they were grabbing a falling yardstick.  Make sure then end of the stick is even with their hands.  Tell them to grab the yardstick as soon as they see it falling.  Drop stick.  Check the number under the hand they grabbed it with.  Record results and repeat for accuracy.
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Here is a program to do that:\nhttp://directory.fsf.org/network/misc/mail-bounce.html
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Here is one for a software package which can be down loaded for a 30 day test:\n\nhttp://www.chembuddy.com/?left=EBAS&right=balancing-chemical-equations\n\nand another at:\n\nhttp://chemfinder.cambridgesoft.com/
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You mean find "g" as if you didn't know the constant? Okay.\n\nPretty simply really. Have the height measured that you're going to drop it from to where it's going to land (this will be your "h"). Make it a high one (one meter is enough). Measure the mass of the object (that's the "w"). Then when you do the experiment, time it. Start it at the instant you let it drop and stop it once it touches where ever it lands. That's enough information to find "g." Just solve for "g" then that would be the answer.\n\nActually, for an experiment, you should solve for "g" as a formula before you start doing anything else. So the formula would be like this:\n\ng = (2h)/[(t^2)(w)]\n\n(t^2 is "t squared")\n\nSo just have that formula then do the experiment: measure height of the drop, the mass of the object, then time it when you drop it (you need good reflexes when you drop it, as it falls fast).\n\nPS Penguins!!!
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Change the question to "fall in air" and think about it. A parachute drops slower than a rock. The shape influence the speed due to drag.\n\nSame for water.
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Sticking by the rules you specified;\n\nConstruct an inclined channel (ramp) where the 1 kg (2 lbs)weight (hopefully a metal ball) falls and accelerated by gravity. place the car that will catch and hold the ball at the end of the ramp. The falling ball's inertia will propel the car almost equal to its speed and may reach more than 1 meter on a flat even surface, design the car with low center of gravity, with less than half the weight of the propellant ball (weight) as a consideration.\n\n************* \n\nAh, New data acquired --- resolution: same application of inertial force using a rigid pendulum.\n\nConstruct a pendulum with the required height putting the fulcrum point at 10 cm directly above the floor of the car, giving you a swing radius of 10 cm from top to bottom, use a cardboard/plastic tube (shute) to carry the pill bottle but loose enough to set it free after a sudden stop once it reaches the bottom where the position of the pill bottle is parallel with the floor of the car. This configuration may not give you as much distance relying on gravity alone but may be able to get 1 meter if conditions are favorable, pertaining to weight of car and means of motion (wheel and shaft should be well oiled for free-wheeling), relevant to weight of falling object, unless you are allowed to spring load the fulcrum. You can put the fulcrum as part of the car (but it will add more weight/ but you wont need the shute, all components will be integrated), or as a separate launcher (which you will need the shute). make sure the center of gravity on the car is low for stability. when integration of all component is involved make the wheel base equally wide as 10 cm. If just for the pill bottle, just narrow enough to carry the bottle.\n\nmy idea: http://server4.pictiger.com/img/124010/other/1-kg-inertia-car.jpg\n\nInnovation is part application and part logical creativity. Isn't science great!\n~meow
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I did a drop kit on a 92 ranger twin ibeams, what fun
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Two approaches that I can think of from a non-physicist.\n\n1. Simply a marker over how far back it physically recoils; or\n2. A spring scale fixed to a point that measures the peak force pulling back against it (you could also use a G meter if available).\n\nGood luck
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increase the drop distance.\nthe further you let it fall before stopping the longer it will take, or you could try an updraft
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You've come to the right place.  Check out this website, even if only to enjoy the animation.  \n\nhttp://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html\n\nalso, see this question\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArKJVUess49GdIPajkfefOLzy6IX?qid=1006031604148\n\nabout the same stuff.
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Because if we sit down on it in the middle of the nite we fall in!!!  if you dont pick it up in the middle of the nite what happens? nothing other than we sit on droplets!!  its a no win.. except i hate to fall in lmao