Bitey said:
Yeah, definitely would not accelerate beyond the fall rate, 9.6 ft/sec or something like that? Always remember… Gravity wins…
Rate of acceleration is 9.8 m/s/s (meters per second per second). Since water breaks apart during the fall it won’t accelerate to much beyond 9-10 m/s, which isn’t much, but you can make up for this with volume of water dropped. That’s how hydro dams work.