A man delivering sheet rock to a construction site was killed Monday when a tape measure fell 50 stories and hit him on the head, authorities said.
A spokeswoman for Jersey City's department of public safety said the accident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. in the city's downtown area.
The 1-pound tape measure became dislodged from the belt of a worker on the 50th floor and struck construction equipment about 10 to 15 feet from the ground, spokeswoman Carly Baldwin said. It then ricocheted and struck 58-year-old Gary Anderson, who had just stopped to speak with another worker who was in a pickup truck.
If more was given, you could find the velocity of the tape measure while it was falling I've been doing too much physics stuff lately.
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Very unfortunate and also kind of avoidable. Why wasn't the guy wearing a safety hat?
Neglecting air resistance, the tape measure would have fallen about 163.5 meters, taking about 5.8 seconds and impacting with an energy of 727 J, which is about the same energy as a .357 Magnum point blank.
Neglecting air resistance, the tape measure would have fallen about 163.5 meters, taking about 5.8 seconds and impacting with an energy of 727 J, which is about the same energy as a .357 Magnum point blank.
ok so you know how to do the acceleration, velocity and energy calculations and translate them into bullet equivalents but you don't know that jumping into a body of water from a large height can kill you?
ok so you know how to do the acceleration, velocity and energy calculations and translate them into bullet equivalents but you don't know that jumping into a body of water from a large height can kill you?
It's water. I don't jump into water from heights, when I throw stones off bridges they seem to sink like normal. How was I supposed to know?
And I do ballistics calculations every day for fun so obviously I know the gun equivalent. I love that stuff.
Neglecting air resistance, the tape measure would have fallen about 163.5 meters, taking about 5.8 seconds and impacting with an energy of 727 J, which is about the same energy as a .357 Magnum point blank.
Wow
So if he got shot at point blank range the energy at impact would have been around the same? It's so interesting that an object so unassuming as a tape measure can be made deadly by the force of gravity.
That timing is awful.
I've been doing too much physics stuff lately.
