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You wonder how long it takes for a raindrop to fall from a cloud until it reaches the ground, amirite?
by Anonymous12 years ago
21 seconds
You believed me for a second there, didn't you.
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about 7 seconds
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by Anonymous12 years ago
well google didn't help. All i got was "it depends"
by Anonymous12 years ago
Hi
Oh I thought we were just wasting space
by Anonymous12 years ago
The raindrop will travel about 9.8 meters per second squared. So if you take the distance from the base of the cloud to the ground and divide it by 9.8 you'll get the time it takes to reach the ground.
by Anonymous12 years ago
yeah, except that acceleration is only 9.8 m/s squared if it's traveling in a vacuum, which it's not. You've got to factor other things in, such as air resistance.
by Anonymous12 years ago
I've always wondered this. I read that it takes a snowflake almost 2 hours to reach the ground... but they kind of float and drift slowly.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Yes and also evaporation as the drop falls. But these things are quite minuscule and so to get a general idea of how long it takes for the drop to reach the ground,they can be ignored.
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