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Does a fly get brought up to speed with a bus?
Consider a scenario where a bus is moving at a constant speed and a fly enters through a window,the fly is also flying at a constant speed.
Since the bus is not in contact with the fly and neither is ...
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Horizontal Speed of Descending Parachute
I understand how to get the vertical (descent speed) of a parachute and its payload, but how could one find the horizontal speed/velocity of this parachute depending on the speed of the wind? (yeah I ...
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What is the terminal velocity for a mobile phone
You may have seen the story of the iPhone which was dropped from perhaps 13,500 feet by a skydiver - it survived.
This made me wonder how to work out the terminal velocity for something like that. ...
