AN OBJECT WITH A MASS OF 0.980 Kg and a frontal area of 0.0400 m^2 is falling straight down. the object reaches a terminal speed at a height of 14.6 m above the ground. take the drag coefficient to be 1.00 and the density of air to be 1.21 Kg/m^3 a. determine the terminal speed.   b. determine the time it takes the object to reach the ground after it reaches terminal speed

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AN OBJECT WITH A MASS OF 0.980 Kg and a frontal area of 0.0400 m^2 is falling straight down. the object reaches a terminal speed at a height of 14.6 m above the ground. take the drag coefficient to be 1.00 and the density of air to be 1.21 Kg/m^3

a. determine the terminal speed.  

b. determine the time it takes the object to reach the ground after it reaches terminal speed 

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