Skydiving: Friction, Velocity, and Parachutes

[skanecfc]

Evening everyone
I wanted to see if my answer would be considered adequate for the question? If its not please suggest anything i could add to it, my answer is:

The skydiver will accelerate as soon as they exit the aircraft, as this happens, the frictional force increases and the forces are balanced, note that velocity is constant, when the skydiver opens the parachute, the velocity will decrease until landing.

thanks

 

[lorenb]

it all sounds correct so far. You may want to make a graph of velocity vs time. You also may want to look up some equations for terminal velocity, etc.