What is Terminal Velocity? How Do We Find It?

The video explores the concept of free fall, emphasizing the role of air resistance. It explains how drag affects acceleration and introduces terminal velocity. Through an experiment with coffee filters, the video illustrates these concepts and discusses measurement uncertainty. It concludes with a comparison of terminal velocities between a baseball and coffee filters, and introduces numerical modeling for future lessons.

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