Name: Rasim

Ismayilzada
specialty: Electrical
Engineering
subject: Engineering
Math
Teacher: Gulush
Nabadova

PRESENTATION:

FALLING OBJECTS AND

AIR RESISTANCE
 Free Falling Bodies
Let’s consider an object that is under free falling motion. Recall that the body moves down because of its own weight
or gravitational force . In addition, we will now consider an air resistance force counteracting the free fall. There are
many ways to assume it but for now, it is proportional to velocity.

• The figure shows the forces acting on the body.

Gravity Force, Fg – also known as weight which is

mass

of the object, m times the acceleration due to

gravity, g

• Air Resistance Force Ff – for this event, we will

assume that it is proportional to the velocity V of

Converting the proportionality relationship into an equation, we now have F f = kV. The constant k is the proportionality
constant which is dependent on the problem. The action of all these forces influence the movement and acceleration, a of the
object. Using Newton’s second law of motion, we take summation of forces along y. Forces that are of the same direction as
of the object’s movement is positive:

Again, we are interested in modelling the movement of the free-falling body at any specific point in time; hence We can
express the acceleration of the body as instantaneous:
Substituting this to our main expression, we can obtain a differential equation that would model the
effect of a free falling body affected by air resistance:

If we divide each side by m, we get this formula:

Now that we have derived the differential equation, all we have to do is to solve for
the general solution
It’s a simple ODE. We can use separation of variables or first order linear differential equations to
get the solution. The presented derivation shows the former.
let , then solve for the general solution

let =C
At this point, it is merely finding the constants C and k depending on the conditions of the
problem. Note that there is a special condition in which the object is simply dropped. In that case,
the initial velocity V = 0 when t = 0. If we substitute that to the general equation, then C = g.
We then now arrive at the equation: V(t)
 Example 1
A steel ball weighing 1lb is dropped from 2500 feet with no velocity. As it fall air resistance is equal to in pounds where v is the
velocity of the ball in feet per second.
Find the limiting velocity and the time it takes for the ball to hot the ground.
g=32 k= m= now V(t)==8-8

S(t)==8t+2 8t+2
2500= 8t+2 t
Thanks for attention<3