While on skydiving, your force equipment measured that the air resistance you experience is a constant 100N. If your mass is 57kg, what is your acceleration as you decend to the ground? (Assume that the scalar acceleration due to gravity is g=9.8m/s2)

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While on skydiving, your force equipment measured that the air resistance you experience is a constant 100N. If your mass is 57kg, what is your acceleration as you decend to the ground? (Assume that the scalar acceleration due to gravity is g=9.8m/s2)

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