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🪂 Linear and Quadratic Drag Terminal Speed Case Studies with Parachute Deployment Lab — 2D Force Balance Notebook

2D companion of the linear and quadratic drag terminal speed lab: a falling body with combined linear and quadratic drag, a parachute opening, force-balance curves and closed-form checks.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

2D companion of the drag and parachute lab: combined linear and quadratic drag, a canopy opening, force-balance curves and closed-form tanh, exponential and energy checks.

terminal velocityquadratic draglinear dragparachutedifferential equation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install