Re: timing data for falling objects

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM>]

At 12:19 -0500 07/07/2002, Brian Whatcott wrote:

> Drag force or drag coefficient? I have a vague recollection of the drag
> > force as having a fairly specific velocity dependence.

Right also. I was trying to talk about the drag coefficient. I must
have been smokin' some pretty low grade stuff to have made those two
mistakes back to back.

I think the velocity dependence is pretty much quadratic at any but
the slowest speeds, but as I recall, the video data we got wasn't
good enough to distinguish between a v dependence or a v^2 dependence.

Hugh
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