#i couldn't be fucked to calculate the projected area and drag of a coconut based on shit i couldn't test
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i calculated the terminal velocity of a coconut
idk why i did this but I was 0.337 m/s off from the actual answer given by an online calculator so that's cool
#tell me if i did this shit wrong lol#there were a lot of assumptions cause i don't actually have a coconut here#i couldn't be fucked to calculate the projected area and drag of a coconut based on shit i couldn't test#so in reality it's a perfect sphere that's close to nasa's calculations of the drag coefficient of what a perfect sphere would be (0.5)#and the diameter of a coconut is apparently 300-450mm so i picked 375 cause why not#and used the sphere formula for that#i put in the calculations for the density of air into an online calculator too#so really it's the calculation of the terminal velocity of a perfect sphere around the same size and weight as a coconut#done as lazily as possible#and compared to another online calculator#physics#science
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