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by Anonymous on January 3rd, 2010

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What is the rate of acceleration to terminal velocity for an apple dropped from a 110 story building?

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  • by archimedes on March 15th, 2010

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    terminal velocity is when the dampening(friction) of air pushing upward equals teh downward force of gravity. You'll need the drag coefficient for an apple, or similar. Here's the basic equation to start later yo can use the harder one.
    v_t=√(2mg/(pAC_d ))


    m= mass, g= gravity, p= density (air), A= surface area of penny, C_d= coefficient of drag

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