The bridge is about 20 yards long. We'll take a short cut and do "1 yard = 1 meter".
Ignore friction and air resistance, assume cables have negligible mass and treat Misty Fey as a point mass.
Support cables are at about 45 degrees to bridge axis. The east-west distance covered by each cable is about 7 meters, so the minimum cable length is:
l = 7 x (cos 45)^-1
= 9.899 m
Round up to 11 meters, to allow the cable some slack (it needs it anyway to cope with expansion/contraction with temperature).
Assume Misty Fey and her clothes and such on her body mass 55 kg. She's going to need some help getting over to the other side, so Godot gives her a shove at the start of the swing, imparting an initial velocity of 4 m/s.
The velocity she has at the bottom of the swing, not counting that initial shove and using the
mgh approximation for gravitational potential energy:
0.5mv^2 = mgh <- Conveniently for us, the mass terms cancel out.
v^2 = 19.6 x 11
v = 14.68 m/s
Adding Godot's shove gives us
18.68 m/s peak velocity.
If the corpse detaches when the cable is at 30 degrees to the horizontal, it'll be 11 sin 30 =
5.5 m below its starting point. Velocity from GPE at this point:
v^2 = 19.6 x 5.5
v = 10.383 m/s
Adding 4 m/s, that's
14.383 m/s initial velocity for the free flight.
Misty is now flying at 60 degrees to the horizontal, so her horizontal velocity for the remainder of the flight will be 14.383 cos 60 =
7.191 m/s.
Her current vertical velocity is 14.383 sin 60 =
12.456 m/s.
The peak height she can reach, with zero being her position at launch:
12.456^2 = 19.6h
h = 7.916 m
However, since she started 5.5m below the bridge level, said peak height is only 2.41 m, or 7.925 ft. Not exactly a 10-foot drop, even with all the generous assumptions we've been making.
Her vertical velocity after falling 2.41m:
v^2 = 19.6 x 2.41
v = 6.873 m/s
Thus, her
velocity at impact (for those of you who are only slightly math-savvy, this part is just Pythagoras's Theorem):
v = sqrt(6.873^2 + 7.191^2) =
9.947 m/sAin't physics grand?
Actually, we still need to establish Misty's average velocity from Godot's position to Iris's position and maybe the velocity of the body on the snowmobile ride, but my brain hurts enough as it is without getting into calculus so I think I'll stop for now.