terminal velocity

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Burbery further argues that Dante anticipated ideas connected to terminal velocity and crustal penetration, concepts tied to how extremely large objects behave when colliding with planets.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

At what point does a phone hit terminal velocity?

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024

All objects have a certain terminal velocity that they reach when falling through the air, based on how their size and weight interact with wind resistance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2024

You can also calculate this terminal velocity, or upper speed limit, quite easily.

From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023

A brick of loneliness is reaching terminal velocity inside me.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell