Like terminal velocity of an object falling in the air, is there the same said type terminal velocity for objects sinking in water? If so, how deep would an object have to be sinking in order to reach the speed? Does the weight of the object in water affect the speed as well?
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If you’ve ever been in the water you might have noticed that things tend to fall much slower than in air. But more weirdly is that they don’t seem to speed up! This is because the terminal velocity of objects in water is typically reached rather quickly.
For the second part of your question the weight of an object doesn’t matter as much as its density. A rock will fall but a battleship will float. In a way you might think of objects that float in water as having a negative terminal velocity, they want to rise.
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