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Thanks for the help! I will check it out and see if it improves my results! :biggrin:

I did not try to inflate the parachutes, I just used my hands to try and get them to be as dome like as possible before dropping. I do not have any other materials which I can used to make the parachutes so I just stuck with the garbage bags. would that affect the overall experiment that much...

Hello, Thanks for replying, I have attached what I have written for the lab so far to this message. This is probably a really poorly designed lab and there are a lot of errors that could have happened. Here is my procedure: Cut circles of radius 0.05 m, 0.1 m, 0.15 m, 0.2 m and 0.25 m using a...

Summary:: Does the surface area of a parachute affect its drag coefficient? If so, how? I have been trying to figure out the effect of surface area on the drag coefficient of a parachute. I have designed a lab in which parachutes of different surface areas are dropped and the terminal velocity...