georgephillip
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Now, I'm really CONFUSED, WingerFreefall applied only to 8 stories over 2.25 seconds of the total collapse time.
That would have required the near-simultaneous buckling and breaking of the 58 perimeter columns and most of the 25 core columns over all eight floors. Your government's official explanation is "office fires."
A Scientific Theory of the WTC 7 Collapse | Foreign Policy Journal
What would the "freefall" time be to drop 8 stories (approx 90 feet)
Acceleration due to gravity is 32 ft per second squared
A falling object would take 1.67 seconds to drop 90 feet
2.25 seconds is hardly "freefall"
Kind of shoots your theory to hell doesn't it?
So what do we have in terms of "Freefall" of WTC 7?
Worst case, 8 floors took 2.25 sec. The rest of the building took over 14 sec
At freefall speeds 162 feet would be covered in 2.25 sec almost twice that which WTC experienced
571 feet is equal to about 174.04 meters.
According to equations on the Physics Classroom:Kinematic Equations and Free Fall, I get 5.959 seconds for an object to free fall 174.04 meters NOT feet in a vacuum.