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yeah I attached my paper clips to the bottommost part of the base

Okay, so in my experiment, when I dropped my paper helicopter, I only measured its flight time (How long it stayed in the air from the moment I dropped it and the moment it landed) When I added more paper clips, the paper helicopter's air time would decrease, and I thought because it was falling...

So as the speed of an object increases, air resistance increases? This would explain why my paper helicopter would fall for a bit, but as its fall speed increases, it would slow down and spin.

1a. I understand now, that if gravity is larger in magnitude than air resistance, the object will keep accelerating. Newton's second law says Net force = mass × acceleration, so if acceleration increases, the net force will also increase. Also, terminal velocity is a constant which means it...

My original question was how adding weight to my paper helicopter made it fall faster because the only thing that changed was the weight and the design was kept the same. Air resistance is what makes the paper helicopter fall slowly in the first place because as gravity pulls the helicopter...

1. If gravity is larger in magnitude than air resistance, I'm guessing that an object would fall at its terminal velocity because the force opposing gravity (air resistance) is less. 2. I'm stuck on this question. Does the object slowly accelerate? It can't stay stagnant in one place, or move...

We haven't touched base on terminal velocity yet, but I know that terminal velocity is the maximum speed an object can fall.

Idk, but from my understanding, air resistance is like an opposing force when an object collides with air particles

Is the speed at which the paper helicopter falls due to its increased weight because gravity is stronger, or is it because air resistance is unable to keep it in the air because the weight is stronger than air resistance?