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  2. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    This velocity is the asymptotic limiting value of the acceleration process, because the effective forces on the body balance each other more and more closely as the terminal velocity is approached. In this example, a speed of 50 % of terminal velocity is reached after only about 3 seconds, while it takes 8 seconds to reach 90 %, 15 seconds to ...

  3. Free body diagram - Wikipedia

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    A body is said to be "free" when it is singled out from other bodies for the purposes of dynamic or static analysis. The object does not have to be "free" in the sense of being unforced, and it may or may not be in a state of equilibrium; rather, it is not fixed in place and is thus "free" to move in response to forces and torques it may experience.

  4. Coefficient of restitution - Wikipedia

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    The COR is a property of a pair of objects in a collision, not a single object. If a given object collides with two different objects, each collision has its own COR. When a single object is described as having a given coefficient of restitution, as if it were an intrinsic property without reference to a second object, some assumptions have been made – for example that the collision is with ...

  5. Impact (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    In mechanics, an impact is when two bodies collide. During this collision, both bodies decelerate. The deceleration causes a high force or shock, applied over a short time period. A high force, over a short duration, usually causes more damage to both bodies than a lower force applied over a proportionally longer duration.

  6. Darcy–Weisbach equation - Wikipedia

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    The key quantities are then the pressure drop along the pipe per unit length, ⁠ Δp / L ⁠, and the volumetric flow rate. The flow rate can be converted to a mean flow velocity V by dividing by the wetted area of the flow (which equals the cross-sectional area of the pipe if the pipe is full of fluid).

  7. Head injury criterion - Wikipedia

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    A HIC-15 (meaning a measure of impact over 15 milliseconds) of 700 is estimated to represent a 5 percent risk of a severe injury (Mertz et al., 1997). A "severe" injury is one with a score of 4+ on the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) [6] Data for specific vehicles can be found on various automotive review websites.

  8. Blade element momentum theory - Wikipedia

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    where is the density of the fluid, is the velocity of the fluid along a streamline, is the static pressure energy, is the acceleration due to gravity, and is the height above the ground. For the purposes of this analysis, we will assume that gravitational potential energy is unchanging during fluid flow from left to right such that we have the ...

  9. External ballistics - Wikipedia

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    The data to calculate these fire control corrections has a long list of variables including: [70] ballistic coefficient or test derived drag coefficients (Cd)/behavior of the bullets used; height of the sighting components above the rifle bore axis; the zero range at which the sighting components and rifle combination were sighted in; bullet mass