I saw an ant on the table today, I brushed it aside and it fell on from the kitchen table to the floor, around 3 feet. I then saw the ant continue to move forward as if nothing happened. I feel a human may potentially break a leg if falling from a comparable height. So I’m curious, why did the ant not break any legs?
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Force is mass times acceleration. If a human and an ant hit the ground at the same velocity, they would both decelerate at comparable rates, both stopping pretty much instantly. However an ant’s mass is many orders of magnitude smaller than a human’s, so the force it feels when hitting the ground is that much smaller than the force a human feels.
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