To: mlocher
Thanks for the answer. So the jump will give him enough time to deaccelerate from 600 mph to terminal velocity? I didn’t you could slow down in free fall.
50 posted on
05/22/2010 10:27:12 PM PDT by
catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
To: catfish1957
In true "free fall" you can't.
The problem is that he isn't really in free fall. There is a resistive force proportional to his velocity, which also increases exponentially (by the Law of Atmospheres) as he falls from near vaccuum to one atmosphere of pressure.
55 posted on
05/22/2010 11:34:56 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
("Thomas Jefferson still survives.")
To: catfish1957
You can slow down in free fall if the air density increases - which is what happens when you descend to lower altitudes.
60 posted on
05/23/2010 7:20:59 AM PDT by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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