How Air Resistance works
Examples of Air Resistance
What Air Resistance is
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What do you need more of for air resistance to work better?
Answer- Surface Area
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What do humans use when skydiving that helps them not crash into the ground?
Answer- Parachute
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What is the definition of Air Resistance?
Answer-Air resistance is the force that acts against gravity. It pushes up on an object while gravity pushes down on the object.
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What is pushing up on a parachute to reduce how the person is falling?
Answer- The air is forcing the person to become lighter by pushing up on the parachute.
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What happens when a blow dryer applies force to a tissue?
Answer- The tissue goes into the air
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Whats the difference of Gravity and Air Resistance?
Answer- Gravity is a force pulling down, Air Resistance is a force pushing up.
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How does Air Resistance work?
Since air resistance pushes up on an object the object becomes less affected by gravity.
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If you have a tennis ball and a tire which one would fall first?
Answer- The tennis ball because gravity pushes less on it so the air resistance pushes up on it more.
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How does Gravity affect Air Resistance?
Gravity pull the object closer to the ground making the impact hard, while Air Resistance tries to make the impact softer
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When you drop a feather and a bowling ball what is keeping the feather up? Why is it still going down?
Air Resistance, it is still going down because Gravity is pulling on it.
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True or False? If you drop a bag of apples and 1 apple, they will drop at different times.
False
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How come in the blow dryer example, why was it not Air Resistance?
It was NOT Air Resistance because the blow dryer was acting as a force on the tissue keeping it up.
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True or False? If you drop and feather a paper which on will drp first? the feather.
False
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If you have a heavy object and a light object why would the heavy object hit the ground first? Explain & use one of newton's laws.
The heavier object would fall first because it has more mass meaning it has less air resistance. Newtons 2nd law " The more force an object has the faster the object accelerates." So the heavier object would hit the ground first.
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How come in the parachute example the clay didn't break/ get hurt?
The clay didn't break or get hurt, because air resistance was acting against the clay an since the parachute expanded the surface area the clay didn't fall as fast.
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