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How is the speed of a parachute falling measured experimentally? and how does weight, balanced and unbalanced forces relate to the descent of a parachute?
could you plese reply to me as soon as you possibly can, as this is for a school assignment, and i would be very greatful for the extra help!
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speed is measured by time against distance,still not understanding what forces you are refering to,is this wind or gravity of payload or wind resistance?
Question- im not too sure, as that is all the question asks, but i assume that it would be any force that can effect the descent of the parachute, like wind. yes the question is quite vague, but if you can give me a few examples and how they effect the descent of the parachute, i would be very greatful!
Answer Okay Jess, you're going to like this,The Ram air parachute (the square type you see in the movies ) is designed to travle forward .This is called Flight or glide aspect,for every foot of decent there is a forward drive. the parachute travles forward.if the parachute is capable of travleing 20 mph forward without any wind and you turn into the wind all travle stops and you come straight down(nice landing) if you turn with the wind behind you , you travel at least as fast as the wind and have a bad landing ,also just before the landing you can flare the canopy which means pulling down on two lines that go to the back edge of the caqnopy changing the direction of drive and you can get lift from the wind blowing in your face ,facing the other direction dosn't give you the lift and you have no braking system at all ,Bad landings also refered to as down wind landings,All aircraft try to land facing into the wind ,Hows that Jess?
