Thanks. How far would the skydiver fall in 12 seconds? That would answer the original question. The answer would be simple if the skydiver were falling at a constant speed, but gravity acceleration makes the solution a bit trickier. I need to refresh my Calculus knowledge.
Ignoring air friction and anything else, just use acceleration multiplied by the time squared. Acceleration is either ~9.8 m/s/s or 32 ft./s/s depending on what units you want the answer in, meters or feet.
Around 1200 feet. That’s less than the distance of a 12-second fall in a vacuum, but remember that terminal velocity is when the deceleration due to air resistance equals the acceleration due to gravity.