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Free Fall Calculator

Computes how long an object falls and how fast it lands from a given height — or the height from the fall time — ignoring air resistance, on Earth or any other gravity.

Earth 9.81, Moon 1.62, Mars 3.72.

Notes

  • h = ½·g·t², v = g·t = √(2gh). Time grows with the square root of height: falling 4× higher takes only 2× longer.
  • Air resistance is ignored — real objects reach terminal velocity (~55 m/s for a skydiver belly-down).

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