World 1 · Kinematics · 6 minHow Far It Falls
Distance grows with time squared
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Speed grows linearly, but distance grows with t²: an object falls a distance ½·g·t². In the first second it drops ~4.9 m; in two seconds ~19.6 m — four times as far.
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