0
Yes. Acceleration can be positive or negative. When he jumps out of the airplane and is in free fall, he is accelerating in a downward direction, so his acceleration is negative. When he opens his parachute, he accelerates in an upward direction, so his acceleration is positive.
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Will a man in a parachute when the air resistance is less than his weight accelerate?
Yes, until he reaches terminal velocity.
Who would fall faster a man with a small parachute or a man with a large parachute?
The man with a small parachute will fall faster.
What happens to a skydiver before they open their parachute?
They jump out of the plane and accelerate to terminal velocity.
How do you use parachute in a sentence?
The man jumped out of a plane using a parachute . *-*
Would a parachute be balanced when it falls?
As long as it is not accelerating (going faster and faster, or slower and slower), the forces on the parachute are balanced. Initially, the parachute will accelerate - in this case the forces are unbalanced. It will continue accelerating, until the force of gravitation is balanced by the force of resistance.
What does simon note on the mountain?
The dead man with a parachute.
When Simon goes to the mountain what does he discover?
the man in the parachute
Words used to describe the parachute man?
Ugh!
Who invented the first parachute?
a man named somebody
Who brought parachute pants into style?
The hippies man! fight the man! Peace!
When you pull a cord on parachute do you go back up?
You do go up, relative to the cameraman, but you never actually gain altitude. When the parachute opens you accelerate upwards and you fell exactly the same as if you were accelerated upwards from rest.
What is the name of the force acting on a man who is descending with a parachute?
"Gravity" is.
