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If a baseball and a marble are dropped at the same time which one will hit the ground first?
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Aristotle thought that the heavier object drops faster, and a majority of people
in 2013 probably still do.
The way gravity actually works, however, is that if air resistance can be ignored,
then everything from a piece of tissue to a battleship hits the ground at the
same time, having accelerated at the same rate and matched their speed at
every point during their fall.
Wiki User
∙ 10y ago
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∙ 15y agoThey will hit the ground at the same time. You may then ask what would happen if you dropped a Baseball and say, a feather. The feather will fall slower because of air resistance. If there was no air, then the two objects will fall at the same speed. There was a famous experiment done on the Apollo 15 mission just before the astronauts left the moon. An astronaut dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon. They hit the ground at the same time. The movie is at this link. http://nssdc.gsfc.NASA.gov/planetary/image/featherdrop_sound.mov Hope this helps!
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A stone is thrown upward from a roof at the same time as another identical stone is dropped from there What is true of the two stones?
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Depends on which one is dropped first. If they are both dropped at the same time, they will both reach the ground at the same time.
Will a baseball or basketball reach the ground first?
If dropped from the same height (a few meters), they would appear to hit the ground at the same time, according to the experiments of Galileo. However, this neglects air resistance on the basketball, which will slow it down more and cause it to hit the ground later (very slightly later). The baseball, which has a smaller area and therefore less air resistance, will hit the ground first.
If two object of different density are dropped simultaneously which one will hit the ground first?
as done in Galileo's experiment when he dropped a large rock and a feather from a tall tower both hit the ground at the same moment when dropped from the same height.
Which would hit the ground first a tennis ball or a baseball?
They would both hit at the exact same time; if you let them go at the exact same time.
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Which would fall first soccer ball or marble?
Whichever you drop first will fall first and hit the ground first.If you drop them at exactly the same time from the sameplace, they fall together and hit the ground together.
Which one will hit the ground first when you have two cannonballs and one is dropped while the other is launched?
They both hit the ground at the same time.
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