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Please can you help?? A skydiver is falling at terminal velocity when she opens her parachute. After a while she reaches a new terminal velocity. How does her new terminal velocity compare to her original
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Please can you help?? A skydiver is falling at terminal velocity when she opens her parachute. After a while she reaches a new terminal velocity. How does her new terminal velocity compare to her original terminal velocity?​

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It will decrease because she is loosing momentum and she will begin to slow down.
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