A Soviet-era spacecraft that was meant to land on Venus in 1972 is plunging back to Earth. Marlon Sorge, an executive ...

The faster the object is travelling the greater the air resistance acting against it. Terminal velocity is the maximum speed achieved by an object freely falling through a gas or liquid.

The object is not accelerating any more. It has reached its terminal velocity and is falling at a steady speed. The resultant force is zero because the frictional force acting against it is now ...