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So I'm trying to figure out a rather amusing problem. A month ago I was doing some work in my attic when I took a wrong step and plunged through my drywall ceiling and fell a straight 20ft to the very bottom of my stairwell landing. I was knocked unconscious instantly and don't remember anything about the fall.
Now that I'm fully recovered I'm curious as to what the force of impact equated to. Was it like being kicked in the head by a mule? A right hook from a pro boxer? Being slapped with a large fish? My problem though is that I have no idea how to calculate the force of impact without knowing how high/far I bounced after landing. The stairwell landing is a rather constricted space; all I know is that I bounced/slumped into the rather solid iron bars of the railing with such force that I bent them out of shape (they're solid enough that I can't bend them back).
Can anyone offer some suggestions that don't involve a crash test dummy and high speed camera? Is there any way to calculate force of impact without the bounce? Here's the data that I was able to figure out:
Mass: 108.862 kg
Distance: 6.096m from floor to ceiling
Time to fall: 1.115s
Velocity: 10.93m/s (24.3 mph)
Kinetic energy before impact: 6502
Now that I'm fully recovered I'm curious as to what the force of impact equated to. Was it like being kicked in the head by a mule? A right hook from a pro boxer? Being slapped with a large fish? My problem though is that I have no idea how to calculate the force of impact without knowing how high/far I bounced after landing. The stairwell landing is a rather constricted space; all I know is that I bounced/slumped into the rather solid iron bars of the railing with such force that I bent them out of shape (they're solid enough that I can't bend them back).
Can anyone offer some suggestions that don't involve a crash test dummy and high speed camera? Is there any way to calculate force of impact without the bounce? Here's the data that I was able to figure out:
Mass: 108.862 kg
Distance: 6.096m from floor to ceiling
Time to fall: 1.115s
Velocity: 10.93m/s (24.3 mph)
Kinetic energy before impact: 6502