Hello Smogon, I have seen that there are several rather intelligent members of this community, so I figured why not take my math question here?
In Algebra, for homework one night, I was given this question: A cliff diver dives off a cliff 40 feet above water. How long is the diver in the air?
The next day I asked my teacher "Is it possible to answer that question without knowing any other information like the diver's surface area or weight?" and she simply said "Yes" and did her little gravity equation.
Now I know that there are other things to take into account other than gravity when judging math regarding any sort of falling. This can easily be proven by taking two identical sheets of paper, then crunching one up into a small crumpled ball, and dropping them at the same time. They both weigh exactly the same, (which apparently isn't even a factor in the math of falling,) but hit the ground at completely different times.
So, what can you say about this?
In Algebra, for homework one night, I was given this question: A cliff diver dives off a cliff 40 feet above water. How long is the diver in the air?
The next day I asked my teacher "Is it possible to answer that question without knowing any other information like the diver's surface area or weight?" and she simply said "Yes" and did her little gravity equation.
Now I know that there are other things to take into account other than gravity when judging math regarding any sort of falling. This can easily be proven by taking two identical sheets of paper, then crunching one up into a small crumpled ball, and dropping them at the same time. They both weigh exactly the same, (which apparently isn't even a factor in the math of falling,) but hit the ground at completely different times.
So, what can you say about this?