Free Fall Equation With Air Resistance. Calculates the free fall distance and velocity with air resistance from the free fall time. Find the final velocity of a skydiver falling from a height of 2000 meter the mass of the skydiver is 72 kilogram and the air resistance is 0.24 kilogram per meter.
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So we have two forces, gravity which pulls the object down and the air resistance which tries to slow down the object. M1 ⋅ a = 9.8 ⋅. ² g m m ( r + h) ².
H = 1/2 * 9.8* (8)2.
Air resistance, or aerodynamic drag force, is a force that opposes the motion of a body in free fall. But in the atmosphere, the motion of a falling object is opposed by the aerodynamic drag. Since most of our free falling bodies occur near the surface of the earth, we can take d, to be the radius of the earth. The magnitude of the drag force is given by eq.