Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text
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Author: Raymond A. Serway, John W. Jewett
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5.4, Problem 5.7QQ
Consider a sky surfer falling through air, as in Figure 5.18, before reaching his terminal speed. As the speed of the sky surfer increases, the magnitude of his acceleration (a) remains constant, (b) decreases until it reaches a constant nonzero value, or (c) decreases until it reaches zero.
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