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Originally Posted by Jacob Plicque
The Newtonian model equations ignore drag which calculates a velocity only on the basis of gravity. My answer is only valid for a drag free Newtonian calculation. Terminal velocity with drag provide an upper velocity limit for a falling object. For a falling baseball it would be about 33m/sec (~108ft/sec) while a hail stone is ~14m/sec (45ft/sec). A 3 meter drop reaches a peak velocity of 7.66m/sec (~26ft/sec) which is less than the maximum terminal velocity. of either of the above examples.
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The definition of
terminal velocity in the context of this thread is given in the first paragraph of this web page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity
Please read it.
You are using a different definition.