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zasi · #1 $Old$ November 15th, 2006, 08:22 PM

estimate the step length of a person who walks at a speed of 4 meters per second?

earboth · #2 $Old$ November 16th, 2006, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by zasi $View Post$

estimate the step length of a person who walks at a speed of 4 meters per second?

Hello, Zasi,

1. This man is walking with an average speed of $14.4\ \frac{km}{h}$ . That means he isn't "walking"...!

2. Even if this man is going pretty fast he can't do more then 3 steps per second. So the average length of a step is 1.33 m. Therefore this man must be a giant.

EB