terminal velocity
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At what point does a phone hit terminal velocity?
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024
Small, heavy objects reach a higher terminal velocity than big, lightweight ones — think a baseball versus a piece of paper.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2024
In analyzing their data, they also discovered that fluctuations in the terminal velocity frequency distribution followed the same pattern.
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023
You can also calculate this terminal velocity, or upper speed limit, quite easily.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023
A brick of loneliness is reaching terminal velocity inside me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
