Consider a speherical speck of dust of mas 1.5*10^-11 kg and radius 2.1*10^-6m with drag coefficient CD= 0.5 falling in air with density P(air) = 1.2kg/m^3. What is the terminal velocity of the dust? Area= pie*r^2

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Consider a speherical speck of dust of mas 1.5*10^-11 kg and radius 2.1*10^-6m with drag coefficient CD= 0.5 falling in air with density P(air) = 1.2kg/m^3. What is the terminal velocity of the dust? Area= pie*r^2 

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