A spherical object with a mass of 75 Kg object and radius of 0.5m is dropped from a plane flying in the sky. a) Determine the drag coefficient C if the object attains a terminal velocity of 100m/s. Assume the density of air is 1.207 Kg/m^3 b) If the same object in part (a) could change its shape such that the frontal area was reduced, show using calculation that it's frontal area needs to be reduced to a quarter of its original size inorder to double the object's terminal velocity?

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A spherical object with a mass of 75 Kg object and radius of 0.5m is dropped from a plane flying in the sky. a) Determine the drag coefficient C if the object attains a terminal velocity of 100m/s. Assume the density of air is 1.207 Kg/m^3 b) If the same object in part (a) could change its shape such that the frontal area was reduced, show using calculation that it's frontal area needs to be reduced to a quarter of its original size inorder to double the object's terminal velocity?
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