Friday, April 27, 2018

Terminal Velocity

How does the term terminal velocity help explain the results of dropping a penny off the Empire State Building? 



26 comments:

Anonymous said...

things can only go so fast

jocey said...

Because of the air resistance

Lindsey said...

because of the air resistance and how far and fast the penny is dropping it hits the ground hard

Ember said...

When the penny reaches a certain point, it has reached terminal velocity, meaning it cannot gain anymore speed.

Anonymous said...

things can only go so fast.

Anonymous said...

something about terminal velocity

William Travis said...

Because of air resistance and wind slowing the penny down.

madyson said...

When an object reaches a specific point, it reaches terminal velocity, it can't gain anymore speed.

Hunter Murphy said...

The penny will encounter air distance and slowing it down.Plus things can only go so fast as it is known as terminal velocity so then it will not be able to gain anymore speed.

Brandon.G. said...

When an object reaches a certain point, it hits terminal velocity, and it cant gain anymore speed.

Ben Pooler said...

things can only go so fast

Anonymous said...

because of the air resistence

Elias said...

the air resistance makes the coin slow down

Ashley Stanton said...

Because of air resistance things can only go so fast

Fiona M. said...

After an object gets at a certain point, it isn't able to gain more speed because of terminal velocity.

Ava-Mae Hymer said...

It helps explain the effects of dropping a penny off the empire state building because the penny would quickly reach terminal velocity and would stop accelerating, so it wouldn't kill anyone!

Stella Wyman said...

The air resistence

brandy said...

When the penny reaches a certain point, it has reached terminal velocity, meaning it cannot gain anymore speed.

Amelia M said...

The terminal velocity shows that the penny will reach it's max speed. The penny's max speed is definitely not enough to kill someone.

Allie Nichols said...

When a penny is dropped of of a high point it hits terminal velocity it stays at that speed.

Anonymous said...

when the penny hits terminal velocity it cant go any faster.

Kailey said...

terminal velocity allows the penny to reach its to speed and stops it from getting any faster

Allie said...

It makes it so the penny can only reach a top speed.

Kaylah S said...

If you dropped a penny off of the Empire State Building, then air resistance would act causing the penny to fall at a constant speed.

jordan said...

If you drop a penny of the empire state building terminal velocity causes it to only reach a top speed.

Carson R. said...

The terminal velocity helps explain the results of dropping the penny because it allows the penny to reach a certain speed and then stop and continue that speed.