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    Work Sheet of Terminal Velocity

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    The document describes the stages of a skydiver's jump from leaving the plane to landing with their parachute. Stage 1: The skydiver is accelerating downwards due to gravity and the lack of air resistance. Stage 3: The skydiver reaches terminal velocity as air resistance increases to equal the downward force of gravity, resulting in no net force. Stage 4: Opening the parachute increases air resistance dramatically, creating an upward net force that decreases the skydiver's downward velocity until they land safely.

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    Work Sheet of Terminal Velocity

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    The document describes the stages of a skydiver's jump from leaving the plane to landing with their parachute. Stage 1: The skydiver is accelerating downwards due to gravity and the lack of air resistance. Stage 3: The skydiver reaches terminal velocity as air resistance increases to equal the downward force of gravity, resulting in no net force. Stage 4: Opening the parachute increases air resistance dramatically, creating an upward net force that decreases the skydiver's downward velocity until they land safely.

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    The document describes the stages of a skydiver's jump from leaving the plane to landing with their parachute. Stage 1: The skydiver is accelerating downwards due to gravity and the lack of air resistance. Stage 3: The skydiver reaches terminal velocity as air resistance increases to equal the downward force of gravity, resulting in no net force. Stage 4: Opening the parachute increases air resistance dramatically, creating an upward net force that decreases the skydiver's downward velocity until they land safely.

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    Work Sheet of Terminal Velocity

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    Abdul Razzaq
    The document describes the stages of a skydiver's jump from leaving the plane to landing with their parachute. Stage 1: The skydiver is accelerating downwards due to gravity and the lack of air resistance. Stage 3: The skydiver reaches terminal velocity as air resistance increases to equal the downward force of gravity, resulting in no net force. Stage 4: Opening the parachute increases air resistance dramatically, creating an upward net force that decreases the skydiver's downward velocity until they land safely.

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    Work sheet of terminal velocity

    Describe the motion at Explain why her motion is the Draw arrows to show
    each stage of the skydiver’s way it is (think about the forces): all forces acting on the
    jump: skydiver:
    Stage 1: at the moment of Stage 1:
    leaving the plane…

    Stage 2: Stage 2:

    Stage 3: terminal velocity… Stage 3:

    Stage 4: just after opening the Stage 4:


    parachute…

    Stage 5: Stage 5:

    Stage 6: terminal velocity Stage 6:


    again…
    terminal velocity – sample answers
    Describe the motion at Explain why her motion is the way Draw arrows to show
    each stage of the it is (think about the forces): all forces acting on the
    skydiver’s jump: skydiver: = weight
    Stage 1: at the moment of Stage 1: since she is not yet moving,
    leaving the plane, the skydiver there is no air resistance acting on her.
    is accelerating downwards. However, her weight acts downwards, as
    ever. So the resultant force on her is
    downwards and equal to her weight.

    Stage 2: she is still accelerating Stage 2: she is now moving downwards,


    but not as much as before. so she experiences an air resistance force
    Decreasing acceleration upwards. Her weight is the same as ever.
    Her resultant force is downwards, but it is
    not as large as before.

    Stage 3: she is moving at Stage 3: as her speed increased, the air


    constant velocity (speed and resistance increased until it was equal in
    direction). size to her weight. At this point there was
    no longer any resultant force. With no
    resultant force, her velocity (speed and
    direction) stays the same (until she either
    hits the ground or opens the parachute).
    Stage 4: she is decelerating. Stage 4: when she opens the parachute,
    her air resistance increases dramatically
    (because of the parachute’s larger area).
    It now exceeds her weight, and so there is
    a resultant force upwards. This does not
    make her move upwards; it eats away at
    her downward speed. (Think of pulling on
    a heavy, moving object in the opposite
    direction to its motion. It doesn’t instantly
    change direction; first, it just slows down.)
    Stage 5: she is decelerating but Stage 5: she has slowed down, so her air
    at a lower rate. resistance has decreased. The resultant
    Decreasing deceleration upwards force is therefore less than
    before.

    Stage 6: her velocity (speed Stage 6: as her speed decreased, the air
    and direction) is constant (until resistance decreased until it was equal in
    she hits the ground). (This new size to her weight, again. At this point
    terminal velocity is lower than there was no more resultant force and her
    the previous terminal velocity velocity no longer changed.
    when she was in free fall.
    Provided she lands correctly,
    she can hit the ground at this
    speed without hurting herself.)

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