To: MHGinTN
The rate of fall in the first many seconds is less affected by the lack of the vacuum...it is only after the column of air has built up under the descender at higher speeds where the rate of acceleration slows.
85 posted on
05/03/2009 6:36:26 PM PDT by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
Would you answer the questions?
86 posted on
05/03/2009 6:42:19 PM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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