November 6, 201411 yr In the new Amazing Spiderman film they implemented an iconic plot point from the comics. (spoiler alert) Gwen Stacy dies. After I was emotionally drained from watching it I sat down and did the math of how it happened. Lets say that Goblin dropped her rom a height of 50 meters. She began falling from rest at an acceleration of 9.81m/s^2. She reached terminal velocity about half way down and had a final velocity of about 55m/s So, when the web hit her she was traveling roughly 55m/s and the hard stop was too much fore her neck to bear and snapped it. That....is how she died.
November 7, 201411 yr We'll actually explore this in more detail when we talk about impulse and momentum soon!
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