Not directly. Air resistance depends on an object's shape and type of surface.
This is false. The answer is that mass and distance affect the gravitational attraction between objects. Air resistance has no effect on this.
If air resistance can be neglected, there is no effect. If there is air resistance, the general tendency is for more massive objects to fall faster. In places like the moon, where there is no air, a feather and a rock fall together.
friction in air is called air resistance. When a feather falls through the air, it is slowed down by this air resistance. as gravity pulls the feather down to the earth, air resistance pushes it up. gravity almost always wins, however, when the feather gets enough acceleration to overcome air resistance. the mass of the object effects the amount of air resistance. a feather has low mass, therefore is slowed down by air resistance. A rock has much mass, therefore air resistance doesn't effect it as much. this is why a rock appears to fall "faster" than a feather. take the rock and feather on the moon (something the Apollo astronauts did) and they fall at the same rate.
Not "affect"; the word is "effect" in this case. Yes, air resistance has an effect on projectiles.
On earth, the mass of an object has no effect whatsoever on its acceleration due to the force of gravity. All objects fall with the same acceleration, regardless of their mass. Any observed difference is due entirely to air resistance.
This is false. The answer is that mass and distance affect the gravitational attraction between objects. Air resistance has no effect on this.
If air resistance can be neglected, there is no effect. If there is air resistance, the general tendency is for more massive objects to fall faster. In places like the moon, where there is no air, a feather and a rock fall together.
friction in air is called air resistance. When a feather falls through the air, it is slowed down by this air resistance. as gravity pulls the feather down to the earth, air resistance pushes it up. gravity almost always wins, however, when the feather gets enough acceleration to overcome air resistance. the mass of the object effects the amount of air resistance. a feather has low mass, therefore is slowed down by air resistance. A rock has much mass, therefore air resistance doesn't effect it as much. this is why a rock appears to fall "faster" than a feather. take the rock and feather on the moon (something the Apollo astronauts did) and they fall at the same rate.
Not "affect"; the word is "effect" in this case. Yes, air resistance has an effect on projectiles.
On earth, the mass of an object has no effect whatsoever on its acceleration due to the force of gravity. All objects fall with the same acceleration, regardless of their mass. Any observed difference is due entirely to air resistance.
If there is no air resistance - or if, due to the conditions, air resistance is insignificant - both will fall together. If there is air resistance, usually the lighter body will be more affected by air resistance (in relation to its weight), and therefore fall slower.
-- In the absence of air resistance, the object's diameter has no effect at all on the projectile motion. -- In the presence of air resistance, one has to know everything about the object AND the air in order to have a prayer of calculating the effect.
mass
Mass certainly affects the gravitational attraction between objects; air resistance doesn't.
it gets faster.
Yes - but only if you can ignore air resistance, that is, if the objects fall for a sufficiently short time, and have a sufficiently high mass, and sufficiently small surface area, so that air resistance becomes insignificant.Yes - but only if you can ignore air resistance, that is, if the objects fall for a sufficiently short time, and have a sufficiently high mass, and sufficiently small surface area, so that air resistance becomes insignificant.Yes - but only if you can ignore air resistance, that is, if the objects fall for a sufficiently short time, and have a sufficiently high mass, and sufficiently small surface area, so that air resistance becomes insignificant.Yes - but only if you can ignore air resistance, that is, if the objects fall for a sufficiently short time, and have a sufficiently high mass, and sufficiently small surface area, so that air resistance becomes insignificant.
Drop a pound of feathers (in a bag) and a pound of lead from a height. The smaller mass of the lead will let it fall faster due to less air resistance, than the greater mass and much greater air resistance of the feathers.