Computer Intensive Physics Robert G. Fuller

This is the position versus time and velocity versus time curves for one coffee filter. You can stack them up. You will notice that the terminal velocity is about one meter per second for the one coffee filter. You can add additional filters (See Figure 38).

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Here are the curves for four coffee filters. Now the terminal velocity gets to be about two meters per second filters (See Figure 39). Here are the curves for nine filters and you see that terminal velocity is about three meters per second. You can ask your students do this kind of analysis (See Figure 40). They

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