ABSTRACT
Timing of Inanimate Objects An inanimate object that has weight and is being acted upon by known forces moves in a predictable way. As a simple example, consider an object falling from rest under the infl uence of gravity. Disregarding air resistance, all objects fall with the same acceleration, which is about 9.8 meters per second. In practice, of course, the buoyancy of the air makes a leaf behave very diff erently from a lump of lead when dropped. However, assuming that an object is dropped which has an average weight, then the distance it falls in time, ‘ t ’, with an acceleration, ‘ f ’, is given by the formula:
Distance ft 12
4 9
2. t meters
By substituting some numerical values for ‘ t ’, distances fallen are as follows:
after second meters18 —0 08.
