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This question is very similar to the cotton and watermelon question..
Lets assume the weight of watermelon and cotton remains the same, they are droped from the same distance and the velocity remains the same too. There is a person lying down when these objects are being droped. Will the impact in this case be the same or different and why....
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Khushboo
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Again, no, for 2 of the reasons I mentioned in the other thread. The cotton deforms, lengthening the amount of time that it's in contact with your body and therefore decreasing the amount of force it exterts on you at any given time. Secondly, it has a larger surface area than the watermelon and spreads the force of the impact over a greater portion of your body, decreasing the amount of force exerted on your body at any given point.
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