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When a skydiver opens the parachute, he or she does not move upward, but rather, continues to move downward, but at a slower speed. Sometimes there is an illusion that the skydiver is moving upward, because if there are several people skydiving together, and one of them opens a parachute while the others don't, you will see the skydiver with the open parachute moving upward with relation to the other skydivers. But they are all still moving downward, they are just doing so at different speeds.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoA parachute increases the person's profile, so that more air hits (the parachute) whilst the person is falling. The collisions between the air and the parachute causes the person's descent to slow down.
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∙ 15y agoThe acceleration is due to gravity. She will reach a terminal velocity of about 120 MPH when the drag and the force of gravity are equal.
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