College Physics
College Physics
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ISBN: 9781938168000
Author: Paul Peter Urone, Roger Hinrichs
Publisher: OpenStax College
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A 60-kg and a go-kg skydiver jump from an airplane at an altitude of 6000 m, both falling in the pike position. Make some assumption on their frontal areas and calculate their terminal velocities. How long will it take for each skydiver to reach the ground (assuming the time to reach terminal velocity is small)? Assume all values are accurate to three significant digits.

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A 60-kg and a 90-kg skydiver jump from an airplane at an altitude of 6000 m, both falling in a headfirst position. Make some assumption on their frontal areas and calculate their terminal velocities. How long will it take for each skydiver to reach the ground (assuming the time to reach terminal velocity is small)? Assume all values are accurate to three significant digits.
Terminal velocity is the maximum velocity attainable by an object as it falls through air. Since the drag force of air increases with the increasing falling velocity, the object will reach its terminal velocity during a fall and then remain at that velocity. Unfortunately, cats fall out of windows in cities sometimes. A famous article, in The New York Times notes that the likelihood that a cat survives a fall goes down as the fall distance increases (expected) but then goes back up at very large distances (perhaps unexpected). If the statistics are correct, then there should be some physical reason this occurs. Some have suggested that terminal velocity and cat biology come into play. The article above indicates that cats have a terminal velocity of 60 miles per hour (mph). If we model the drag force Fd​ (N)  on a cat as   Fd = 1/2 kAV2 where A is the cross-sectional area of the cat (assuming it is a cylindrical shape), V is its velocity and k=1 kg/m3, Calculate the cross-sectional…

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