(b) If the skydiver's daughter, whose mass is 45 kg, is falling t...

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(b) If the skydiver's daughter, whose mass is 45 kg, is falling through the air and has the same D (0.25 kg/m) as her father, what is the daughter's terminal speed?

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Welcome back everybody. We have a skydiver who has achieved terminal velocity and we are told that terminal velocity is calculated by this equation right here, objects mass or the skydivers mass times the acceleration due to gravity Divided by the drag constant. And we are told that the Skydiver is dropping feet first and our drag constant for that position is 0.15. Let's go ahead and plug in all of these values. We have the square root of mass, which is 62 kg times the acceleration of gravity 9.8, all divided by his drag constant for that position, giving him a terminal velocity of 63. m/s or responding to answer choice B. Thank you guys so much for watching. Hope. This video helped. We will see you all in the next one.

(b) If the skydiver's daughter, whose mass is 45 kg, is falling through the air and has the same D (0.25 kg/m) as her father, what is the daughter's terminal speed?

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