Re: The drag force -- a correction squared

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 11:35 10/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
> Dear Justin-
>        In the absence of a verbatim statement of the problem (which you
> should have included), I can only give you a general statement as an
> answer.  At terminal velocity, the drag force of a falling object is
> proportinal to the mass; the up and down forces are in balance, the up
> force is the drag force and the down force is mg.
>        I would not want to critique a paraphrase of someone else's
> statement.
>
>                                Regards,
>                                        Jack

Jack will undoubtedly want to reconsider the general statement
that the air drag on an object is proportional to its mass at
terminal velocity.

It is not.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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