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2 Responses to “Penny For Your Thoughts”
Nick Finck wrote: 8 Nov 2004

Apparently Dawn is not the only one to go to great lengths to find an answer:

A Penny in Free Fall

Glad to see we are spending all of our research time and money on such important issues… like exploding pop tarts.

Tom Chi wrote: 8 Nov 2004

What I learned that day is that this penny stuff is nontrivial. Finding a lowerbound for the impact time is easy, but once you get to calculating the drag force on a small spinning object (whose spin is a semi-chaotic time function) then it starts to get hard.


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