Is this the correct answer? Finklebottom and Priest suggested that since cotton

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Is this the correct answer?

Finklebottom and Priest suggested that since cotton balls fell differently than rocks, the proper way to model an object falling with air resistance was to modify the free fall expression for the distance s fallen as a function of time t from the expression we are familiar with sgt where g is a constant representing the acceleration due to gravity to an alternative expression with k is a constant representing the smaller acceleration of, say a cotton ball due to air resistance ( The plot below was created using data taken by a group of your peers. 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.0 0 0.5 1.5 2.5 s (m)

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Your answer is correct.

Given plot is not consistent with the proposed model.

Reason- if we plot a curve between distance s and square of time (t2) for proposed model, the plot will be a straight line. But here, shown graph is parabolic in nature.

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