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To: Dr. Jeff who wrote (167907)	5/24/2002 4:04:08 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

Climb up to the top of the Empire State Building and drop a golf ball onto the street below. The ball likely will bounce back up three-quarters of the height of the famed New York City skyscraper before hitting the sidewalk again and bouncing repeatedly, each time rising to a level slightly below where it was before I think the writer has used some "rule of thumb" calculation about the nature of golf balls. i.e. the physics of a golf ball on a golf course and it's elastic transfer of energy when hit by a human being. If dropped off the empire state building (I have not done the calculation yet) but I think it would near terminal velocity due to air resistance before it hit the ground. Not only that but I'm not sure that it would be able to make the elastic transfer of energy into the bounce. It seems to me like a lot of assumptions have been made about a golf ball in extreme conditions. I won't comment on the rest of the article. It was suggesting to buy stocks for some reason. It's seems like a transparent scam to me.