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Engineering, 22.09.2020 14:01 gapaxton22

A parachute designer is task with designing a round parachute for a human that weighs 160 lbs. The user wants to descend at a rate of 4.5 meters per second. Given that the coefficient of drag is .75 and the air density is 1.22 kilograms per cubic meter. What is the area in meters squared of the parachute that the designer will have to construct?

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