Whats YOUR DREAM!!!

Ahhh ok gotcha ty, didn't think bout that part, anyone ever told u ur a pretty Fart Smeller Neer?
 
Air density. The terminal velocity (for something as aerodynamically awful as a human in a suit) you list assumes air dense enough to breathe comfortably. Thin the air, and terminal velocity goes up as the square root of it. At 31 km (20 miles) up, air density is a hundredth of the surface value, and the terminal velocity receives a tenfold increase, to an approximate 1200 mph. But Baumgartner (oh those wild&wacky Austrians!) didn't have enough vertical room to build to full terminal before the air got dense enough to slow him down.

By an altitude of 20 km (12 miles), the air density is up to 55 mbar from 10, and terminal is down to a decidedly subsonic 500mph.

Interestingly, I read many many years ago that Kittinger broke the sound barrier in his famous jump. But a web search suggests that whoever filled my adolescent head with those ideas ... was exaggerating. Such a bummer. He made it to about Mach .96 ... cn

I actually want to write a function and plot it, would you know if there is a a known coefficient of drag for a human?



NVM found this [TABLE="class: large, width: 670"]
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I actually want to write a function and plot it, would you know if there is a a known coefficient of drag for a human? NVM found this [TABLE="class: large, width: 670"] [TR] [TD]Ski jumper[/TD] [TD]1.2 - 1.3[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
I would accept that as a lower limit ... cn
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lol wouldn't that feel weird? slowing down as you fell further, complete mind fuck.
I'm guessing you wouldn't feel it except as a very slight increase in perceived gravity. The thing about free fall (and all flight) is that one's sense of altitude has to be "trained in" as we learn what to use as scale objects. cn
 
Well considering the main goal was the height and not speed, I'm sure they took that into consideration, doesn't change anything tho.

I was referring to surviving a fall from a certain height.


I wonder if he could see the shock wave being pushed by his visor that would be bad ass
 
I was referring to surviving a fall from a certain height. I wonder if he could see the shock wave being pushed by his visor that would be bad ass
Almost certainly not ... the air was too thin and dry. The only real way to visualize mild shock waves like that is by specialized photography (Schlieren) or by their effect on a nearby surface. cn
 
Well here you go guys i hope you enjoy it. The temperature change with altitude was not nice or even a real function for that matter. Everything was related to temperature, Pressure,density, ect .
Forced me to solve a bunch of 2nd order differential piecewise functions ;-)

The max speed for my estimate was about 400 m/s or 900mph

Not bad considering I took an average mass for a human and projected cross-section.

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You can see that initially he accelerated very fast reaching his max speed in only 15,000 meters in. after that the air begins to get dense and air resistance starts to take effect.

not perfect but its what I do when bored
 
Thank you for that, Ryan!

I encountered this during an earlier search ... the shapes are a bit different, but not hugely imo. cn

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To live in the Rocky Mountains in the middle of absolute no where.
BUT
To live in the highest potential of technological sustainability :D


Live and grow my way through the rest of my life..
 
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