A squared:
Originally Posted by ANCPER View Post
What's the world coming to
when pilots don't know the basics of physics?
Indeed. What you're missing though, is that you are the one who doesn't know the basics of physics.
It is astonishing that you continue to insist that you're correct when it has been demonstrated quite thoroughly that you are wrong.
If something is worth saying it is worth saying twice.
Will some of the numpties posting here please wake up.
For an object in freefall at terminal velocity:
drag = mass x g. That is not up for debate. 'g' being fixed (notwithstanding the fact it does vary very slightly
) - if you increase the mass you must increase the drag that would result at terminal velocity. And that means an increase in terminal velocity, because the OP is predicated on a fixed shape and hence a fixed coefficient of drag.
This result has already been mentioned and proved in other ways in this thread multiple times now. I am bemused - though no longer the least surprised - to see some posters still wading in to contradict this fact with their half baked physics.