Rain - Fast or slow?

O rly?

I just thought about it and figured it out.

Assuming you can't get under cover and are on a totally flat plane, and can not escape the area under the rain, and the rain is evenly dispersed, you will be hit by the same amount of droplets, regardless wether you are moving fast or slow.

I'd say a nice job is where it's at.

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...

You fail at physics.

I have physics honors next year, so I haven't failed yet...

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...

Yes, and no.

Yes, hail will drop faster, but not due to it being accelerated faster by gravity. The force on anything near the Earth's surface due to gravity will cause it to accelerate at -9.8 m/s/s. However, air resistance will slow down the water droplets more than hail.

hail sucks. it hurts alot more than rain does

Yes, and no. Yes, hail will drop faster, but not due to it being accelerated faster by gravity. The force on anything near the Earth's surface due to gravity will cause it to accelerate at -9.8 m/s/s. However, air resistance will slow down the water droplets more than hail.

Beat me to it .

Okay, we can look at our path through the rain as a volume... assuming an even distribution and a constant rate of rainfall, then each cross-section of that volume will have the same amount of rain at each moment in time. So, your speed through that volume doesn't matter if you are out in the rain for the same amount of time for both walking and running, but in reality, the point of the running is to get under shelter, so you will spend less time under the rain, thus getting less rain on you. Running or walking makes no predictable change to the number of rain drops in your path at any given moment.

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...

In saying this you stated that hail falls faster than rain......

Dude, no I didn't. It was a simple question