Why do raindrops falling at terminal velocity not hurt us due to surface tension?
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“Terminal velocity” does not mean “shooting at you like a bullet”. It means “the fastest an object will get in free-fall before wind resistance is slowing it down enough that it can’t get any faster”.
The terminal velocity of a raindrop isn’t much at all.
Then since its mass is almost nothing, and its velocity is nothing special, the force of impact is also almost nothing.
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