What exactly is terminal velocity? I had an assignment on it which I have to finish in school but I cannot....

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What exactly is terminal velocity? I had an assignment on it which I have to finish in school but I cannot remember the exact question. It was multipe choice and there were 4 answers. Each answer had a #Number and then m/s^2.

What are the possibilities? Thanks.

Answer 1

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/JianHuang.shtml

Answer 2

Depends on the object. Some have a bigger terminal velocity than others.

Terminal velocity is the maximum speed an object can reach. Usually this pertains to atmospheric conditions and stuff falling down like a parachutist. Air flowing creates drag and that stops him/her from faling faster. Parachute opened his TV is a lot slower but my guess is you would want to know the speed without the parachute.

The terminal velocity of a skydiver in a normal free-fall position with a closed parachute is about 195 km/h (120 Mph). Higher speeds can be attained if the skydiver pulls in his limbs (see also freeflying). In this case, the terminal velocity increases to about 320 km/h (200 Mph), which is also the maximum speed of the Peregrine Falcon diving down on its prey

Answer 3

The terminal velocity of an object falling towards the ground, in non-vacuum, is the speed at which the gravitational force pulling it downwards is equal and opposite to the atmospheric drag (also called air resistance) pushing it upwards. At this speed, the object ceases to accelerate downwards and falls at constant speed. An object moving downwards greater than the terminal velocity (for example because it previously used power to descend, it fell from a thinner part of the atmosphere or it changed shape) will slowuntil it reaches terminal velocity.

You could get more information from the link below...

Answer 4

Sounds like you were being asked to calculate the terminal velocity of an object ?

Here is the definition of terminal velocity. Maybe this will jog your memory on what exactly the question was. could be almost anything!

Answer 5

For obvious reasons, I'm not going to be able to reconstruct your school assignment.

But, terminal velocity is when an object reaches the maximum speed it can possibly travel within a particular atmosphere (against resistance).

Answer 6

When you drop something in a vacuum it will continue to accelerate at 9.8m/sec^2 until it hits. However, when something is dropped in the air, the wind resistance will stop the acceleration giving a maximum velocity known as terminal velocity. That's one of the reasons why rain drops don't hurt when they hit us. Their terminal velocity is low.