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What does it mean to say “force of drag”
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What does it mean to say “force of drag”

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It is a mechanical force generated by a solid object moving through a surrounding fluid. In other words, you can also say that drag is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving through a surrounding fluid.
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