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(b) How far has the car travelled at the end of 30seconds?
60 m
The experiment below shows, all the air has been removed
from the tube. Both feather and lead ball dropped from same
height and reaches bottom of the tube at the same time. This
is because all the objects in the absence of air resistance,
accelerates towards the earth at same rate that is10m/s2.
TERMINAL VELOCITY
When any object falls through air, due to the gravitational
force or weight the object will exerts a resistive force. This
resistive force increases as the object moves faster.
Resistive force acts in the opposite direction to which the
object is moving. And after some time the resistive force
and weight of the object becomes equals, so the object
moves with constant speed, this is known as terminal
velocity.
speed
Speed Parachute opens – diver
decreasing slows down
Speed
increases…
Terminal
velocity
reached…
Time