Mission NL11 Air Resistance
Mission NL11 pertains to the concept of air resistance and the factors that affect the amount of air resistance experienced by an object. The mission consists of 35 questions organized into 9 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...
Learning Outcomes
- The student should be able to identify the factors effecting the amount of air resistance and describe the effect of air resistance upon a falling object.
- The student should be able to define terminal velocity, identify the causes of terminal velocity, and describe the factors effecting the magnitude of the terminal velocity.
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The Physics Classroom, Newton's Laws Unit, Lesson 3, Part e
- How does mass effect the rate of fall of an object falling under the influence of air resistance?
- What variables effect the amount of air resistance experienced by an object?
- How does one calculate the acceleration of an object if the magnitudes of the individual forces are known?
- How does increasing speeds effect the force of air resistance?
- How does increasing speeds effect the rate of acceleration of a falling object?
- Why would a falling elephant fall faster than a feather?
- What is meant by terminal velocity?
- Why does an object eventually reach terminal velocity?
- What is the net force on an object which has reached terminal velocity?
- What would the free-body diagram for an object which has reached terminal velocity look like?