rwguinn
Penultimate Amazing
The "over g" acceleration in all that you are discussing comes from the fact that you have created a hinge at the supported end of what was a cantilever beam. The center of mass is falling at g, or some fraction of g, while the hinge end is not moving. The free end, by simple geometry, is going to have a velocity, vf, at some time t that is in excess of what a freely falling beam would have.
Second, a dynamic transient event is going to generate instantaneous accelerations above ground, if the structure being acted on is flexible, and if the exciting force occurs over a time span less than 1/fn, where fn is the natural frequency of the structure being acted upon.
Second, a dynamic transient event is going to generate instantaneous accelerations above ground, if the structure being acted on is flexible, and if the exciting force occurs over a time span less than 1/fn, where fn is the natural frequency of the structure being acted upon.
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