Recent content by pitchwest

At extreme heights there's less gravity. A falling person would fall slower, but there's less air resistance at those heights, so a person would fall faster. The guy that did a free fall from 128,100 ft broke the speed of sound. I'd like to calculate the change in speeds he fell and view it on a...

What do you think would best show the change in gravity due to the change in air resistance against an object? I was thinking that I'd have to first find an equation for the amount of air at different altitudes. Then calculate the level of air resistance and apply it to the amount of air...

I'd like to graph the function of and object falling to Earth from a point high enough that air density has an effect on the rate the object falls due to gravity. I'm not really sure where to start though. I'm thinking about that guy that jumped from the highest point ever free-falled from...