Originally Posted by
PeteHski
Yeah I realise that now. It's just that over here we always use the term "squared" when talking about the relationship of one variable to another i.e. in this case Drag being proportional to v squared. But anyway, we are talking about exactly the same thing. No disagreement there, just different terminology.
You aren’t wrong. * The other coefficients are just zero for the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation
* it just doesn’t matter for this discussion.