Regarding the physics Chris Burden's Beam Drop

hydeordie:

sympathyfortheartgallery was kind enough to translate the Dutch being spoken during the video of Beam Drop, and I want everyone to walk away from here learning just one thing: Regardeless of weight/mass, everything falls at the same 9.8 m/s^2.  The only thing that mass effects, is the force that the object hits the ground with.  The only thing that would factor into the speed with which the beams hit the ground would be air resistence, which is negligable considering the circumstances.

Class dismissed.

Damn, I knew this.

  1. Date Posted Icon 27th July 2009
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    Mesmerising. They speak Dutch; they mostly talk about how the beams fall equally fast as they have an equal mass. Most...
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    sympathyfortheartgallery was kind enough to translate the Dutch being spoken during the video of Beam Drop, and I want...
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