Monday, January 14, 2008

Air Resistance

What is Air Resistance? How does it affect falling objects?

16 comments:

travis s. said...

Air resistance is the force of air onto an object. It slows down the object that it is pushing against. It will make falling objects fall slower than how fast they could fall.

Matthew said...

Air resistance is air pushing againts an object. Like when you drive a car and you go slower because so much wind.

.:*{briana alexis}*:. said...

Air resistance is a friction-like force that opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. Air resistance causes objects to fall with different speeds and different accelerations.

-Fisch- said...

Air resistance is the resistance of air of a falling object. Like and object with more surface area will have more air resistance when it is moving wich will need more force than a smaller object to go the same speed.

Casey said...

Air resistance opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. Air resistance causes objects to fall will different accelerations and different speeds. Without air resistance all objects would fall the same. Even a bowling ball and a feather.

chad said...

Air resistance is the force that is applied when a object is falling or going through air. Air resistance is constantly being used when an object is falling. If the air resistance on a object is greater then the falling rate then it will stay afloat or come down slower.

Josh 41 said...

air resistance opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. It causes objets to fall with different accelerations and speeds

Anonymous said...

Air resistance opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. It causes objects to fall with different accelerations and different speeds. If there was no air resistance, all objects would fall with the same acceleration.

pauly said...

Air resistance opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. Air resistance causes objects to fall with different accelerations and different speeds.

Anonymous said...

Air resistance is the force of air to an object. It affects falling objects because it slows down the speed and you have to use more force to get it going faster.

Jon said...

air resistance opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. It causes objets to fall with different accelerations and speeds.

!~*Miranda! :} said...

air resistance is the force of air into a object. Air resitance causes objects to fall with different speeds. It there were no air resistance then all objects would fall with the same acceleration.....

taylorjo said...

Air resistance is the force of air onto an object. It also slows down the object that is puching against it. The air resistance causes objects to fall with differant speeds. IT also causes the objects yo have differant acceleerations too.

Tina said...

Air resistance is the part of the atmosphere to forward movements. If an object is traveling fast in one direction, and the air resistance is the other direction, and it will stop the object from moving. It makes objects fall with different accelerations and speeds.

Anonymous said...

Air resistance is a friction- like force that opposes the motion of objects that move through the air. Air resistance causes objects to fall with different accelerations and different speeds. If there were no air restistence, then all objects, like an apple and a feather, would fall with the same acceleration.

Carson Stange said...

Air resistance is friction between air and an object. Air resistance slows down a moving object. Air resistance isnt the same, it depends on how the texture of the surface is.