Intro Physics Lecture 8: Terminal Velocity

Thanks for watching! This is Lecture Eight from Introductory Physics, where we focus on Terminal Velocity. In this lecture, we recap Newton's Laws of Motion with some questions and examples, and really see how they apply with the example of Terminal Velocity. We also consider the relative merits of trying skydiving for ourselves. If you have any questions from the lecture, please post in the comments!

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Course Textbook
Physics (Fourth Edition), Jim Breithaupt, Palgrave Foundations

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Video Chapters
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Would you go skydiving?
05:40 Recap Newton's First Law of Motion
08:30 What's so normal about the Normal Force?
10:50 Are the forces equal and opposite?
16:50 Recap Newton's Laws of Motion
21:00 Terminal Velocity
22:00 Physics of Terminal Velocity
32:00 Displacement at Terminal Velocity
33:50 Equal and opposite forces
35:20 Reaction force to gravity