Eli5 If the equation for force is F=ma why does dropping the same object from 2 different heights change how much an object would be crushed?

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In science one year, we did a test of dropping a water bottle from different heights over a Pringle, and we had to protect the Pringle with a paper. But how would increasing the height increase the force is the mass and acceleration is the same?

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What is important is what acceleration is vs speed. If you use a car instead, you can get the car to accelerate over a certain distance. If the car can still accelerate further, giving it more road will result in more speed at the end

When you’re back in vertical acceleration with gravity, it’s the exact same F=ma Newton taught us, except that the bottle doesn’t carry its own engine. The engine is Earth gravity and the acceleration is always full throttle

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