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Hi ,
YOUR MIND
I was looking through the Triton magazine ( Fall 2015 ) and saw the little note on the watermelon drop on page 19 . When I read the piece , and when my wife read it , we each thought the 112 mph was the watermelon ’ s speed when it hit the ground . This seemed too high to me for being dropped from the seventh floor . I did some quick calculations ( neglecting air resistance ) and got that 112 mph was too high or building too short if the 112 mph was to be the speed at impact . Adding air resistance only makes things worse .
I then went online to see more articles about the watermelon drop and to see if there were any calculations or explanation . I read about the history of the drop starting in 1965 ( a few years before I was there ) and the physics test and all . All of the articles gave the impression that the 112 mph was the speed of the melon when it hit the ground . I then did some calculations for the terminal velocity of a watermelon ( using reasonable assumptions ) and got a number close to the 112 mph . However the watermelon would have to be dropped from a much higher building to achieve that speed .
Clearly the terminal velocity and the velocity the melon hits the ground are not the same in this case . If the melon drop is being used to verify terminal velocity calculation , it is not clear how . If someone does want the velocity of the melon when it hits the ground they should do the calculation with air resistance ( not a trivial matter ) and verify it with direct measurement .
Bradley Hand , Revelle , class of sometime in the early 70 ’ s . ( The Vietnam War changed things around a bit .)
Ed : What say you , Tritons ? Anybody up for the calculation ? One thing we can help with , Bradley : Revelle class of ’ 73 .
Corrections
In the Fall 2015 issue of Triton , Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet , Ph . D . ’ 01 , was misidentified as the first alumnus from Scripps Institution of Oceanography ( SIO ) to be assigned commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command ( NMOC ). The first SIO alumnus in that position was Rear Admiral Brian Brown , M . A . ’ 87 , ( pictured right ) who commanded NMOC from 2012-2014 .
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