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It would be 9.8m/s. Try this experiment: drop a quarter and a pen at the same time from the same height. You will see that they both land at the same time even though their masses are a little different. That's because all objects fall at the same speed 9.8m/s no matter how high up they are when they're dropped or how much their mass is.

A2:A coin has abysmal aerodynamics but, after falling for only 6 feet, it will not have come anywhere close to achieving its terminal velocity and can, for all practical purposes be considered to be in freefall (assuming that the coin was, in fact dropped, and not thrown downward).

Freefall is a condition where the falling object is not affected by aerodynamic drag. The acceleration due to earth's gravity (g) is 32.15 feet/second2

Re-arranging v = 1/2*g*t2, (basically, taking time out of the equation) you get:

v = (2*g*d)^0.5 (This is one way of writing "Square root of 2*g*d")

The velocity of an object in freefall for 6 feet at the earth's surface would be 19.6 feet per second.

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