Parachute_William_Jeb

What shape of parachute falls the slowest?

We believed the rectangular parachute would fall the slowest.

We dropped each parachute: square triangle rectangle circle 20 times each a balcony that was around 20 feet tall. We were measuring how slow the parachutes fell in seconds.

The square won then the rectangle came in second. The circle was third and the triangle was last. The triangle and circle parachute spun to the ground instead of floating like the square and rectangle parachute.

The advice that we would give to people is to not use the triangle because it fell lopsided to the ground. We would make the parachutes out of clothe instead of out of trash-bags.

We would not use this experiment because it was boring and easy to do. If we could choose again we would pick a plant project or the friction project using the cars.