If a body crashes through a skyscraper window, what falls first? The body or the glass shards from the window?
Just curious, you know.
Both.
The guy, unless he was moving downward AT THE TIME HE HIT THE WINDOW, had an initial vertical velocity of zero.
The glass had an initial vertical velocity of zero.
Both objects are affected the exact same way by gravity; both will accelerate downward at 9.8m/s^2.
So both will have the exact same velocity at all points along their fall downward, and both the body and the glass shards will hit the ground at the same time. The only way that one could strike before the other is if aerodynamic effects took hold, but I think that because the glass has flat, nonaerodynamic sides, and would be tumbling, it wouldn't be an issue.
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