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January 13, 2020
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Is the drag force formula,
, empirical?
How did people figure out the model for drag force?
I kind of know there's torrent and turbulence but how do they work?
Is it at low speed that
, or that
?
What are the conditions under which one would make
or
for
?
In
, why is the density of the medium associated with the quadratic drag coefficient
, and the cross-sectional area of the object with the linear coefficient
?
Why do we use this model for air resistance?
Will we be discussing viscosity later on?
Will it always be given whether to use linear or quadratic drag?
What are the other negligible terms in the drag force?
Why is it desirable to set the
-axis as increasing downwards for projectile motion?
How is the direction of drag in the
direction decided? In the lecture the
-components of
and
should be the same (both down) but we write them opposite in
. Why?
What does ``coupling'' mean for differential equations?
Can the EOM in the case of quadratic drag be solved analytically?
We have
, but why do we write it like this?
Why do we even use the variable
? Seems unnecessary.
Why can we make the the substitution to get
?
Where did you get the last expression for
from? How do you understand this expression intuitively?
How do you find
from
?
How do you go about solving coupled differential equations?
Will we ever solve EOM by leaving them in vector form? (using matrices, etc.)
I saw some equations using
. Do we have to know them for Chapter 2?
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Kate Scholberg 2020-01-13