Terminal Velocity


  • The assumption that air resistance is negligible is often unrealistic. An object traveling through a fluid will alway experience a force opposite to its moving direction, which known as the drag force. Drag force a frictional force, sometime known as air resistance. 
  • Terminal velocity is the velocity at which a falling body moves through a medium, as air, when the force of resistance of the medium is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the force of gravity.

Parachute and Terminal Velocity


https://www.concepts-of-physics.com/mechanics/stokes-law-and-terminal-velocity.php

Motion Diagram for Drag Force

Velocity-Time Graph For Curiosity Landing (A challenge question)


Looking at the Velocity-Time graph of the landing and come up with a explanation 

Answer and Explanation

Simulation for Drag Force


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