The concept of terminal velocity makes no sense to me
i mean the whole atmosphere is a fluid, so why wouldn't velocity be affected by it, start from there
>>16872848There are two relevant forces at work when you fall; gravity and drag. No matter how fast you are going, the pull of gravity will always be roughly the same. You can pretty much treat it as a constant. Drag, however, changes rapidly as you increase in speed. When you're moving slow drag is negligible, but it increases extremely rapidly as you speed up. As long as the downward pull of gravity is higher than the resistance of drag, you will keep falling faster. If drag is higher than the pull of gravity, you slow down (for example if you increase drag by flattening your body or opening a parachute). If drag and the pull of gravity are about equal you've reached "terminal velocity" and stay at the same speed. If you were to fall on a planet that does not have any atmosphere, there would be no terminal velocity, if that helps.
Nothing can go faster than light, so light is the terminal velocity.
>>16872848The drag force is a function of velocity. At a certain velocity the drag equals the weight. It’s a simple equation to solve.
>>16873192since you would never reach it there is no terminal velocity just 0.999...cwait, am i in the right thread?
Think of the air just piling up below your as you fall, until enough gathers there that you won't fall any faster.
>>16872848drag force is a square of velocitygravitational force is practically a constantat some point drag force = gravitational pull force and velocity stops increasing
>>16872848You can literally skydive and verify it you braindead fucking nigher
>>16873659Materialism post. Empirical testing has no value in measuring the validity of a mathematical concept.
>>16872848are you the moon?
>>16873192Says who?Science is not fact it's conjecture.
