I was just scrolling through another sub and the Felix Baumgartner jump came up, along with someone mentioning that the record was broken by Alan Eustace in 2014.
In the Wiki for this, it mentions he was falling at 822mph, however I thought a human’s terminal velocity was 120mph (more if say, a skydiver was diving head first)… So how does this work? Is it as a result of the reduced air resistance and force of gravity increased therefore increasing the terminal velocity?
Sorry, by no means a physicist!
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so like terminal velocity is how fast you go when air pushes back as hard as gravity pulls you down. eustace jumped from way higher than most skydives so he fell through thinner air at first and built up more speed before air resistance kicked in. kinda wild how science works right.
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