drag coefficient
Americannoun
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When my colleagues and I analyzed the ball in a wind tunnel, we found that the Jabulani was too smooth overall and so had a higher drag coefficient than the 2006 Teamgesit ball.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
It turns out that a soccer ball’s drag coefficient is approximately 2.5 times larger for laminar flow than for turbulent flow.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
The changes enable a new low drag coefficient of 0.29 to make these front-wheel-drive CUVs even more efficient.
From The Verge ● Apr. 13, 2022
Notice that the drag coefficient is a dimensionless quantity.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Moving through water is powerful, he added, because the resistance, or drag coefficient, is 12 times what it is in air and works on the body in all directions.
From Reuters ● Jun. 9, 2014
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