Recent content by Peter Frame

We all know that nothing can go faster than light. This is because as something approaches the speed of light, its mass will approach infinity. What if something was falling towards a immense body very very far away. Of course the object will accelerate and gain velocity and get close to the...

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So your saying that in a perfect experiment with no air current, and no wobbling object, it would approach it? This is what makes a lot of scene to me.

Also i meant this more as a conceptual question. In practice I am sure it would reach a number.

But if you graphed the velocity, it would curve to horizontal. Either midway along this curve it would suddenly flat line, or it would approach a number but never quite get there.

Today in physics we talked about terminal velocity. This got me thinking. As air resistance acts on a falling object, the acceleration of that object will decrease. I was wondering if terminal velocity is only approached asymptotically and never technically reached. Please explain this. Thanks.