Sentences with phrase «air friction»

It would be a near - vacuum, vastly reducing the effects of air friction.

A material comparable to sharkskin — an outer casing made of plastic, shaped with microscopic grooves — could repel dirt and reducing air friction up to 5 percent.

Without air friction to slow it down, the balloon would eventually zoom out of the stadium.

The result was a 365 - pound car that looked something like a flounder on bicycle wheels but was capable of moving at 50 mph on less than two horsepower, thanks to a near - complete absence of mechanical friction and a minimum of air friction.

Magic shit happens... air friction, strange snorts, assumed bong rips, and general lunacy.

When a football is thrown with a bit of a wobble, as opposed to a tight spiral, it will not travel as far, because it presents more surface area in the direction of flight resulting in a greater degree of air friction, also called drag.

There's too much air to rely solely on rockets to slow a craft's descent, but not enough to use just parachutes and air friction, as can be done here on Earth.