Penny falling from the empire state building

Subject: Penny falling from the empire state building

Date: Tue Dec 8 10:19:30 1998
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Hi I need some information about a penny falling from the empire 
state
building.  I want to know if a penny falling from the empire 
state building
would kill someone? It keeps accelerating at 9.8 m/sec/sec every 
second but
woudl that be enough (after 1250 feet) to kill someone? what 
would be the
pressure? do you know what motion formula might help me derive 
this? How much
damage could the penny do? Any ideas of how I could recreat a 
similar
experiment without having to drop a penny from 1250 feet? Thanks, 
M.W.

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