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Consider the slides in the pictures.

 

Can you rank how fast you'll be moving (speed in any direction) when you reach the end of the slides, if there are no drag forces?

 

What if there are drag forces? Can you give a sensible approximate ordering? Does it matter what kind of drag forces they are, and how big they are?