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A falling body problem through the air in view of the fractional derivative approach
Authors:Kwok Sau Fa  
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aDepartamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá-PR, Brazil

Abstract:Recent studies have revealed that the fractional derivative can behave as a dissipative term. The analysis of a simple fractional oscillator has supported this point of view. However, other physical aspects related to fractional derivative are also important to be explored. For this purpose, in this work, we employ the fractional approach and guide ourselves by the above property to investigate the falling body problem. We show that the velocity of a falling body, in the fractional approach, can be greater (t<1) or less (t>1) than that velocity of free-fall obtained by the usual approach. Moreover, we show that the fractional derivative alone is not sufficient to attain a terminal speed. In order to provide a terminal speed into the fractional system a term, proportional to velocity, must be introduced.
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