I'm lost on terminology; i.e. free fall

[jesters]

39. Bolo boffin,

look at the thread title. Is this a thread about debunking Bazant's model? No, it isn't. It's about the question of free fall. OTOH made the comment that some people still think that free fall occurred in the towers. I pointed out that Bazant is the only one we know who has officially stated this, because he uses a free fall drop for his upper block motion.

We are not discussing why he uses it, nor why it's incorrect to do so. We don't care here about "limiting cases" or "simplifying assumptions" that are designed to favour collapse progression. That is not the purpose of this conversation. You are a host here; you should be able to recognize what conversations are about, and what they're not about.

You are the only one left who is still denying that Bazant uses free fall acceleration for his upper block motion, even though this information is easily found in any of his papers. If you are denying that he's using a free fall acceleration for the drop of the upper block, then please tell us what rate of acceleration he's using. If you can't do this, then the conversation on this point is over.