*It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop.*
This basically means that the impact is what kills you. But bugs don’t weigh enough to reach a speed that could create a big enough force to kill them on impact.
However, when you hit a bug mid-air, it generally kills it but how? It’s an impact to isn’t it basically the same thing as a fall?
They’re suddenly coming into contact with an object in both situations so what’s the deal?
In: Physics
When you’re falling your sudden stop is relative to an inmoving object (the ground) so a fly’s terminal velocity isn’t enough to kill it hitting the ground, swinging your hand or a flyswatter at it is much faster than their terminal velocity.
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