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If an anvil fell for 9 days how many feet would it drop

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 12-04-22] [Hit: ]
-Weight doesnt matter when doing regular falling-body problems.*Density* of the body can have an effect - as that will determine the terminal velocity of the object.I dont have a chart for terminal velocity for iron handy - but make a reasonable assumption that it will be about the same as irons relative density x 1 Mach - or about 8,000 ft per second.It would reach that velocity in just about 5 minutes.So,......
I'm reading up on greek mythology and it says that if you dropped an anvil from Earth(as in where your sitting right now, not off the actual planet) it would take 9 days to reach Tartarus. I'm curious to know how many feet that is. I know it doesn't give the weight but I found that most anvils are from 130 to 300 lbs so go for about 250 lbs or so.

Thanks in advance!

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Weight doesn't matter when doing regular falling-body problems.

*Density* of the body can have an effect - as that will determine the terminal velocity of the object.
I don't have a chart for terminal velocity for iron handy - but make a reasonable assumption that it will be about the same as iron's relative density x 1 Mach - or about 8,000 ft per second.

It would reach that velocity in just about 5 minutes.

So, for a first approximation, you could use 8,000 ft per second x 60 seconds/min x 60min/hour x 24hours/day x 9 days.

(Hint - substantially greater than the distance from the Earth to the Moon.)

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First off, it wouldn't matter how heavy the anvil was. Also you need to know the air density between where you dropped the anvil to Tartarus. You will also need to know how strong the gravitational field of Tartarus is. You will also want to calculate the anvil's terminal airspeed. Once you have these values and a few other random fun variables you should be all set to calculate the distance.
All in all, I would say that its approximately over 9000.

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Weight of an object doesn't have any effect on the velocity of the fall, that's one of the most important facts in physics. It was proven during a moon landing where they dropped a hammer and a feather at the exact same time, and without the influence of air resistance they fell at the same speed.

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If anything fell for 9 days, since gravity is -9.81 m/s^2, it would be going so fast that it would probably go an extremely large distance (like millions of earths radius's) before it stopped. Don't believe most of the stories in Greek Mythology, they're fiction stories from thousands of years ago

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This is not a straight forward question. Forget the weight of the anvil and go to your favourite search engine and enter. "Terminal velocity in a vacuum".
You will see that it isn't a an easy question to answer,
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