Numberphile: The Drag Equation (Empire State Building v Eiffel Tower)

Numberphile video on one of my favourite topics: the drag equation. We first calculate what would hit the ground first when dropped from a plane – a human or a bowling ball? And for the second ‘drag race’, we’re dropping the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and a concrete wrecking ball into the Mariana Trench… cast your votes now (and no cheating).

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