Re: air resistance

[LUDWIK KOWALSKI <KOWALSKIL@alpha.montclair.edu>]

> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 09:56:16 -0800 (PST)
> From: John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPomona.Edu>
> Subject: Re:air resistance
>
>      1.475        0.668         2.494           9.64           0.09
>      1.500        0.835         2.734           9.60
>     ...
John is correct, there is a typing error at t=1.475. The second entry
in that line should be 0.768, not 0.668.

> With that correction I can (as with the previous data) obtain *excellent* 
> numerical fits to your d vs. t data (i.e., rms errors in d less than 
> 1 least sig fig) with drag exponents (i.e., the n in F_drag = b v^n) 
> anywhere from 1/5 to 5.

Please share the values of b for n=1/5 and n=5; I assume b=1 when n=2.
  
                                              Ludwik Kowalski