How manyuniversities benefitted when an emeritus professor won a distinguished award (which has included NobelPrizes in the past)? The fact of the matter is, given the cost-benefits of granting emeritus status, anyuniversity in question has always been far-and-away the winner.
where g is the acceleration of gravity. The value for g on Earth is 9.8 m/s/s. The above equation can be used to calculate the velocity of the object after any given amount of time when dropped from rest. Example calculations for the velocity of a free-falling object after six and eight seconds are shown below.
If you are in low Earth orbit with 10.8 km/s, your speed drops to something like 1-2 km/s before the Moon speeds you up again. Your speed would drop to ~0.19 km/s. The Moon's orbital velocity itself is ~1 km/s.