SOLUTION TO THE PARACHUTE PROBLEM

SOLUTION TO THE PARACHUTE PROBLEM

A graphing calculator was used in approximating solutions for t below.

Try doing the same problem with the only difference being that the parachute opens after 15 seconds instead of 5 seconds. Click here to see a (quick) animation of the parachutist's descent. To the right is a graph of the parachutist's height above the ground as a function of time. The red portion of the graph corresponds to freefall and the blue portion to the descent after the parachute opens.

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Lane Vosbury, Mathematics, Seminole State College email: vosburyl@seminolestate.edu