Question

When an object falls through the air and encounters air resistance its overall speed will be ______ than if it had not encountered air resistance?

Answer 1

decreased the air resistance slows it down so the speed will decrease i guess if you want to say it differntly reduced could be accepted but decreased goes better with the question just remember air resistence makes you slower

Answer 2

LESS or SMALL

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know that when object is dropped in air then the net force on the object is due to the attraction force of earth i.e. gravitational force (mg) and resistance force due to air.

So here we will say net force is given by

`F_(net) = mg - F_v`

here acceleration is given as

`a = g - (F_v)/(m)`

now since acceleration is less than the acceleration due to gravity so here the speed of the object will be lesser than the speed when there is no resistance due to air on it.