air-resistance

This could, it seems to me, be because the sling had a greater effective range, arrows losing their power to air-resistance after a while, and falling out of control onto their target, whereas a sling stone might build up a more dangerous speed just from falling.

The Sling « Isegoria 2008

That, along with spin and air-resistance, causes the curve swept out to deviate slightly from the expected perfect parabola.

Archive 2008-05-01 Steve Hulett 2008

That, along with spin and air-resistance, causes the curve swept out to deviate slightly from the expected perfect parabola.

Newton's Third: Part Deux Steve Hulett 2008

All told, I seemed to have a good seven minutes of life left-ignoring air-resistance, to use your favorite phrase.

Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

The silk floated aimlessly around me: I had expected some trace of air-resistance at this speed but there wasn't a sign of it.

Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

The vessel belongs to the non-rigid class, but the whole of the suspension system is placed within the gas-bag, so that the air-resistance offered by ropes is virtually eliminated in its entirety, for the simple reason that practically no ropes are placed outside the envelope.

Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

A full-rigged airship such as the Parseval, for instance, may present a picturesque appearance, but it is severely unscientific, inasmuch as if it were possible to eliminateor to reduce the air-resistance offered by the ropes, the speed efficiency might be raised by some sixty per cent and that without any augmentation of the propelling effort.

Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

It means that the inertia-mass which increases with speed -- Einstein's stuff -- is not a property of matter, but of space, just as the air-resistance that increases when an airplane goes faster is a property of air and not of the plane.

Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935

Friction and air-resistance in their case are practically nonexistent.

The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

-- Cross-section of bed calorimeter, showing part of steel construction, also copper and zinc walls, food-aperture, and wall and air-resistance thermometers.

Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913