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A skydiver prepares to jump out of a plane.Explain how gravity and air resistance will affect motion of the skydiver before and after he or she opens the parachute

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Step-by-step explanation:

When someone jumps out of a plane, you must first remember that the force of the air would lift you a bit before you actually start dropping. Then, they would start to accelerate. Since there's that steady pull of gravity, they would go faster.

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First, he will start to accelerate. The constant pull of gravity on the body will cause it to go faster. At a sudden moment, the air resistance will stop the acceleration (Newton's 3rd law), thus having a maximum speed ( I think it is about 270 -300 km/h)
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