Imagine if you stood on top of the Empire State Building and had a penny. Say if you dropped the penny from that great height, and it landed on the streets below. Normally, when we drop things from a larger height, we see that if it falls with a greater velocity (or speed for simplicity).
Interestingly, the answer is no. In physics, there is a concept called terminal velocity, at which the velocity of an object stops increasing, due to an opposing force called air resistance which acts to neutralise the effects of gravity, which acts towards the centre of the earth. This means that the penny will only move faster to a certain extent. This means that if a penny fell on you from the Empire State Building, it wouldn’t actually hurt that much, even less than a paper cut in fact…
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