5cm Per Second
5 Centimeters per Second …they say it’s five centimeters per second. The speed of a falling cherry petal. Five centimeters per second. According to the hit 2007 animated short film, 5 Centimeters per Second 1, this is the speed at which cherry petals fall. Of course, I’m skeptical, and as a physicist I want to model the heck out of this. So, in this article I would like to propose a model for a thin, circular flower petal to be the spherical cow of flower petals....