Water and concrete

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From: Geoff Ruth (gruth@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 17:37:03 PDT 

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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:37:03 -0800
From: Geoff Ruth <gruth@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Water and concrete

People always say that jumping into water from a great height is equivalent
to jumping onto concrete. In a qualitative way, is this true?

Is it the hydrogen bonds within water that make it so difficult to move out
of the way of a fast moving object? Or is there something non-Newtonian
about water that makes it act differently when struck very quickly?

-Geoff

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