I have never been to a STOL Drag race, and so I will probably be pummeled for whatever I say, but here goes anyway. Two pylons and corresponding start/stop lines are set 2,000 feet apart.

Drag (Physics) In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance or fluid resistance) refers to forces which act on a solid object in the direction of the relative fluid flow velocity.

Take your hand and draw it through water in a pool. You can feel resistance---this is hydrodynamic drag. It is the effective force created by the interaction of your body and the water.

When an object is partially submerged in flowing water, it can experience greater drag than if that object is fully submerged. One reason for this is that at modest flow speeds greater than about 23 ...

The results are published today, 11th December 2015, in the journal Physics Education. "Usually, describing a realistic motion including aerodynamic drag would be beyond the scope of a secondary ...

Drag racing and black hole physics. 01/16/20. By Catherine N. Steffel. The first undergraduate on the Event Horizon Telescope to receive junior collaborator status thrives in the unknown. ... and ...

Scientists report the finding July 13 in the New Journal of Physics. Knuckleballs are well known in baseball, but similar phenomena also confound players in soccer and volleyball.

The physics of how gentoo penguins can swim speedily underwater ... Pressure drag results from flow separation around an object, like an aircraft or the body of a mako shark as it moves through water.