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Why does a child feel more pain when she falls down on a hard cement floor, than when she falls on the soft muddy ground in the garden ?

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To understand why a child feels more pain when falling on a hard cement floor compared to a soft muddy ground, we can analyze the situation using the concepts of impulse, force, and deformation. ### Step-by-Step Solution: 1. **Understanding the Impact**: When a child falls, they experience an impact with the ground. The nature of the ground surface affects how this impact is absorbed. 2. **Impulse Concept**: Impulse (J) is defined as the change in momentum, and it can also be expressed as the integral of force (F) over the time duration of the impact (dt). Mathematically, it is given by: \[ ...
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