How manyuniversities benefitted when an emeritus professor won a distinguished award (which has included NobelPrizes in the past)? The fact of the matter is, given the cost-benefits of granting emeritus status, anyuniversity in question has always been far-and-away the winner.
where g is the acceleration of gravity. The value for g on Earth is 9.8 m/s/s. The above equation can be used to calculate the velocity of the object after any given amount of time when dropped from rest. Example calculations for the velocity of a free-falling object after six and eight seconds are shown below.
A falling human reaches terminal velocity in about 12 seconds, after which his speed will remain constant. He'll fall about 450 meters in those first 12 seconds, and about 58 meters each second after that. There are 1609 meters in a mile. The fall would take just under 20 seconds. Caveats: A skydiver wearing a Wing Suit can create more wind resistance, and fall more slowly.