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Let there be a person in a not yet optimally designed sled at h meters in height. Let this sled free fall but user can steer by tilting their body weight in the sled or by optimal sled shape design point it in some horizontal direction where it is wanted to go - in any horizontal direction but once picked fixed. How to calculate horizontal distance d achievable as function of height h. Thus what is f(h) = d.
Put another way, imagine a helicopter rises to a height h, but then shuts off all engines and power, and just free falls. Imagine also the bottom of chopper is a strategically designed shape engineered to maximize horizontal force imparted to the vehicle such that it lands a distance d away from the direct vertical drop from where it started its free fall.
What is involved in calculating just this free fall + atmosphere resistance, assuming no wind as initial approximation. If theory is suggested plz provide calculation with estimated values for required parameters, not just a howto but also a numerical answer with assumed values.
Assume sled is a square. Then a rectangle. Then a bowl of spherical shape. Next of some prolate spheroidal shape. Also, a perhaps arbitrary shape determined by optimizing and maximizing d given h. Note that atmospheric properties are functions of h.
Put another way, imagine a helicopter rises to a height h, but then shuts off all engines and power, and just free falls. Imagine also the bottom of chopper is a strategically designed shape engineered to maximize horizontal force imparted to the vehicle such that it lands a distance d away from the direct vertical drop from where it started its free fall.
What is involved in calculating just this free fall + atmosphere resistance, assuming no wind as initial approximation. If theory is suggested plz provide calculation with estimated values for required parameters, not just a howto but also a numerical answer with assumed values.
Assume sled is a square. Then a rectangle. Then a bowl of spherical shape. Next of some prolate spheroidal shape. Also, a perhaps arbitrary shape determined by optimizing and maximizing d given h. Note that atmospheric properties are functions of h.
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