From "Theory of Wing Sections" by Abbot and von Doenhoff:

Drag = 1/2 roe V^2 S Cd where roe = the mass density of air, V= velocity, S = Area (wing area for this treatise), Cd = coefficient of drag

Drag (sir resistance) grows with velocity squared and is proportional to area, air density and coefficient of drag, ie the drag characteristics of that shape.

I'm just a dumb engineer trained in fluid mechanics. I have never heard of the 'negative half of" anything, nor that air resistance grows exponentially with velocity. Maybe I was asleep (for six years) or perhaps my professors were not the best. Granted, the reference I gave, although once considered the bible on wing sections and the reference from which many airplanes were designed (and flew), was published in 1949 and probably quite wrong by now.

Ben