Recent content by Jouke

Oops my mistake I've always had a nasty tendency to forget about the (wing) area a major mistake, especially if you're studying aerospace engineering. It is true that Cd is highly nonlinear coefficient. But for things like bullets, cars, trains, cyclists and people the Value for Cd is pretty...

I think you are missing a crucial piece of information here. Drag is proportional to the velocity squared times the air density. \vec{F} \propto \rho \vec{v}^2 The formula for "wind" resistance usually written in the following form: \vec{F} = C_d \frac{1}{2} \rho \vec{v}^2 {S} Where...