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Old 06-29-09 | 08:27 AM
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From: Zang's Spur, CO
Originally Posted by supramax
I'm just trying to clarify something, because I can't understand why some people are having so much difficulty wrapping their brains around a simple fact that's irrefutably proven in a vacuum, but applies always.
I gave you the equations for a freefalling object in a fluid, but apparently you don't understand math.

Let me introduce you to John Kallend, Ph.D.
He is professor in the Dept of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He is also a pilot and a skydiver.

Here is a presentation he assembled on the physics of skydiving.
Note Slide 15:

http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/scien...cs/physics.ppt

Now you can go explain to him that he is wrong.
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