Timeline for Can kicking a falling phone save it from shattering?
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 7:44 | comment | added | MSalters | @BrandonEnright: It's indeed not a stand-alone answer, obviously - it starts with "a second effect". Brionius' answer already covered the other main effect (more time to decelerate). Adding a horizontal speed component rapidly complicates the analyis, though - as the phone hits the ground, friction will slow down the horizontal component, and we have no idea how rapidly it will do so. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 22:53 | comment | added | Brandon Enright | This seems like an incomplete answer to me. Also your answer neglects the possibility that your foot actually increases the speed of the phone (although it will change the direction). | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 22:49 | review | Low quality answers | |||
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| Jan 4, 2015 at 22:31 | comment | added | MSalters | I don't hope I have to explain to the downvoters the joke about the fall not killing you, but the sudden stop at the end. It should be sufficiently obvious that breaking = force = sudden deceleration = sudden decrease in kinetic energy. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 20:52 | comment | added | AStopher | This question isn't asking about stopping it, it's asking about it breaking. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 17:40 | history | answered | MSalters | CC BY-SA 3.0 |