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What are some example of activities or inventions that manipulate air resistance to slow things down or speed them up?
identical masses dropped from the same height with and without a parachute
Is forces on the parachute upthrust and down force?
Up thrust because the air pushes up and fills up the parachute.
Does a parachute fall quicker with a heavy or light weight?
To lift the parachute up people carry light weights in it. So if light weights are needed to lift the parachute up heavy weights will fall the parachute quicker.
What pulls you up?
Any force that originates above you does. It could be the tension in a bungee, in the harness of a parachute, etc.
The big piece of cloth on a parachute is called what?
The parachute canopy is made up of panels.
Do you go up when you open your parachute?
Yes, you do. When a parachute deploys in mid air on the way down to the ground you go up. Only because when you are moving down the wind is moving up from you. So when the parachute opens and the wind is cought then the wind (going up) pushes the parachute up but only for a little while beause eventually gravity will take control.
Can you survive a skydive with a hole in your parachute?
yes but it depends how big the hole is and if you have a back up parachute
How does gravity allow a parachute to go up into the air?
Gravity and parachute fight and newton wins!
Does the third law of motion affect a parachute?
yes it does cause if there was no gravity then ur parachute would be going up
Is it true that the band Falling Up is breaking up?
It was announced on Januray 20, 2010 by lead vocalist Jessy Ribordy that Falling Up was disbanding, or "taking a permanent break," and their final show was at the Parachute Music Festival on January 29.
Did the queen of England get to the Olympics with a parachute?
No, it was all set up. It would have been to big of a risk to send the queen in a Parachute.
How do you open up parachute?
maybe by pulling on the string?
