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I do. I know everything. Mother's have eyes in the back of their heads, just ask my kids. :P
She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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no...
hear no evil
see no evil
speak no evil

I know nothing!



don worry, I will tell everyone... hehe ((((evil grin))))))



COOL! You can read my mind! Like, how did you do that?:S


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Blondes do have more fun!

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No they won't, they're on different tracks!:P

-- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo
Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

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Because marshmallows have neither doors NOR bones!! Don't you understand?:|

Yeah, it's fine, we'll walk down the line. Leave our rain, a cold trade for warm sunshine
You my friend, I will defend... and if we change, well, I love you anyway

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Well, sort of like...

Sum (F) = 0
F = m*a
since a is gravity and it points down... a = -g so
F = -m*g

now we have air resistance right? And the air resistance (Fair) depends on the area (A) of the object coming in contact with the air that changes due to body position. It also depends on a drag coefficient (C) that depends on the clothes you're wearing, and on the density of air at the current altitude D(h). It is all affected by the square of the current speed... if you increase speed, drag force increases too.

So...
Fair = A*C*D(h)*v^2

Finally

F = -m*g + A*C*D(h)*v^2

And we know that if we have reached Terminal Velocity, that F = 0.

The rest is simple substitution.

ENJOY YOUR SKYDIVE!

~Chivo

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