Terminal Velocity

How does terminal velocity appear in the FE model?

Terminal Velocity is the fastest that an object can fall towards the earth, it has relation to the air resistance canceling out the pull of gravity.


However in FE you aren't falling, the earth is catching up with you. therefore there is not a cap on its velocity catching up with you.

The earth is pushing air up towards you as it accelerates. Eventually the force  exerted by the air is sufficient to accelerate you at a rate equal to the of the earth, and so the ground catches up to you at a constant speed.

That doesn't really work, the air is being pushed up irrespective, that implies that we should feel uplift as we walk around on the ground

That doesn't really work, the air is being pushed up irrespective, that implies that we should feel uplift as we walk around on the ground

Why, we are being pushed up with it.

Terminal velocity is, as you stated, in relation to the resistance of air as an object is traveling through it, in this case towards the ground. So a RE model or a FE model will work identically because it's friction that determines how fast an object falls.

Really has nothing to do with RE vs. FE. Now if the two models were in a vaccum then you would have a point.

That doesn't really work, the air is being pushed up irrespective, that implies that we should feel uplift as we walk around on the ground

No, because if you are standing on the ground you are being accelerated at the same rate as the air.