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Newton’s laws of motion play a key role in the sports of skydiving and base jumping. A safe but exciting jump depends on reaching a safe terminal velocity, governed by a drag force, which, in turn, depends on the design of equipment and materials used.
When Nasr Al Niyadi and Omar Al Hegelan jumped from the 160th floor of the Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai in January 2010 they broke the world record for the highest base jump, all 828 m of it. What is base jumping, and why is physics crucial to surviving it?
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