A parachute increases air friction, thus reducing falling speed.
Indeed, the air friction is roughly proportional to the surface of the object falling down; the parachute tremendously increases that surface.
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Dominoes does because when you hit one, it knocks over the next one, and so on, so forth. The same type of pattern happens in a wave.
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