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a man riding on the back of an orange car while flying through the air over snow covered mountains

And in Terminal Velocity, skydiving instructor Charlie Sheen drives a Cadillac Allante convertible out of a flying cargo plane in mid-air. He freefalls and lands between the windmills while being pursued by villain James Gandolfini, whose parachute tangles in the spinning blades.

an apple is shown with the force and weight on it's side, labeled terminal velocitty

Yes, it's a film title, but terminal velocity is also the maximum velocity reached by an object as it falls through a fluid. This article explains how it works.

a hand holding a pen writing drag force = expaxv2 on a piece of paper

Learn the equation to find the terminal velocity of a falling objectEver wonder why skydivers eventually reach a maximum speed when falling, even though the force of gravity in a vacuum will cause an object to continually accelerate? A...

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