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Comment by teraflop

2 years ago

Roughly speaking, both lift and drag are proportional to v^2 for a given geometry.

Neither lift nor drag has anything to do with mass. They are entirely determined by the surface of the object, and are not affected at all by the interior properties, including density.

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