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!
In: Physics
dude that’s wild. the reason he fell so fast is because he started from way higher than regular skydives. up there the air is thinner so less drag. so he could keep accelerating till he hit that crazy speed. kinda like how a rock thrown off a cliff goes faster than just dropping a pencil 10 feet. super cool science stuff
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