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Which object, a feather or a hammer, hits the ground first when dropped from the same height?
Both the feather and the hammer will hit the ground at the same time when dropped from the same height in a vacuum. This is due to the principle of gravity, which accelerates all objects at the same rate regardless of their mass.
Would feather and a nail reach the ground at the same time?
No, a feather and a nail would not reach the ground at the same time if dropped at the same height in a vacuum. This is because the feather experiences more air resistance, slowing its fall compared to the nail which falls faster due to its higher mass.
Why will a feather and a hammer reach the ground at the same time if there is no air resistance?
The acceleration due to gravity is constant at the same elevation, therefore anything that is dropped from the same height here on Earth will accelerate at the same rate, and fall at the same time, hitting the ground at the same time.It is difficult to fathom this simply because we are used to observing the result of air resistance. You would need to perform this experiment in a vacuum.
Do objects fall at the same rate on a planet with no atmosphere?
No, because there is no air to slow the down. For deeper analysis, check youtube, hammer and feather experiment on the moon. They hit the ground at the same time on the moon because there is no atmosphere, but if you drop a hammer and a feather on earth the hammer, obviously, hits first.
What hits the floor first when dropped at the same time hammer or feather and why?
The hammer would hit the floor first because it is more dense than the feather. When objects are dropped in a vacuum where air resistance is eliminated, gravity pulls them down with the same acceleration regardless of their mass or density.
Which object, a feather or a hammer, hits the ground first when dropped from the same height?
Both the feather and the hammer will hit the ground at the same time when dropped from the same height in a vacuum. This is due to the principle of gravity, which accelerates all objects at the same rate regardless of their mass.
What might be a good experiment to be done on the moon for kids?
One that's actually happened is dropping a feather and hammer at the same time; because there's a vacuum on the Moon, they hit the ground at the same time. A quick search for hammer feather apollo will find videos of the experiment.
Drop feather and steel hammer at same time they hit ground at same time. why doesnt it work with earth?
It works in a vacuum. It won't work on Earth due to air pressure slowing the dropping feather due to friction.
If you dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon at the same time which would hit the ground first?
Both the hammer and the feather would hit the ground at the same time on the moon because there is no atmosphere to create air resistance, allowing objects to fall at the same rate regardless of their mass.
What would happen if your in space with no atmosphere and you dropped a feather and a hammer?
They would both float if you had no gravity.
If a hammer and feather were dropped simultaneously from the same height on the asteroid Ceres which would hit the ground first?
On the asteroid Ceres, both the hammer and feather would hit the ground at the same time due to the very low gravitational pull compared to Earth. This phenomenon is in line with Galileo's principle that objects of different mass will fall at the same rate in a vacuum.
What would happen if you dropped a hammer and a feather here on earth?
The hammer would fall faster than the feather due to gravity, regardless of air resistance. In the absence of air resistance, both would hit the ground at the same time in a vacuum, as demonstrated in a vacuum chamber experiment on the Moon by astronaut David Scott in 1971.
Why can a feather and a hammer drop to the ground in the same time on the Moon?
Because there is no air on the Moon (it is too small to hold any appreciable atmosphere). Gravity accelerates all objects equally and it is only air resistance that makes a difference in the speed at which something falls on Earth.
Would feather and a nail reach the ground at the same time?
No, a feather and a nail would not reach the ground at the same time if dropped at the same height in a vacuum. This is because the feather experiences more air resistance, slowing its fall compared to the nail which falls faster due to its higher mass.
Why will a feather and a hammer reach the ground at the same time if there is no air resistance?
The acceleration due to gravity is constant at the same elevation, therefore anything that is dropped from the same height here on Earth will accelerate at the same rate, and fall at the same time, hitting the ground at the same time.It is difficult to fathom this simply because we are used to observing the result of air resistance. You would need to perform this experiment in a vacuum.
Do objects fall at the same rate on a planet with no atmosphere?
No, because there is no air to slow the down. For deeper analysis, check youtube, hammer and feather experiment on the moon. They hit the ground at the same time on the moon because there is no atmosphere, but if you drop a hammer and a feather on earth the hammer, obviously, hits first.
What would happen if you droped a hammer and a feather on the Moon?
What would happen if you dropped a hammer and a feather on the earth and on the moon? The above experiment is supposed to prove the equivalence principle which states that the acceleration an object feels due to gravity does not depend on its mass, density, composition, colour or shape.Answer:If you drop a hammer and a feather from the same height on earth, the hammer will hit the ground first as the feather is slowed down drastically by air resistance.But on the moon, because it is a vacuum, and since the acceleration of an object is the same as the gravity i.e. a = g and the mass is not in the equation, all objects will have the same acceleration and hence the hammer should fall to the surface of moon at the same time as the feather but:"Both will hit the moon at the same time as believed by most scientists?"This may not be absolutely true since every object has its own gravity which is greater if its mass is greater. So the hammer has a gravity much greater than that of the feather. Therefore the combined gravity of the hammer and that of the moon (which pulls the hammer and moon towards each other) is greater than that of the feather and the moon.As such the hammer should collide with the moon marginally earlier than that between the feather and the moon, though this difference is so minute that we assume that the collisions occur simultaneously.However, if the hammer and feather are dropped together, then as the hammer's gravity pulls the moon towards itself, it also pull the moon towards the feather and as such the lucky feather may get a free ride and hits the moon at the same time as the hammer.To be fair, the experiment should be done dropping the objects individually e.g. feather first, then the hammer and then see whether the times taken are the same or not.All the above are valid only on the assumption that the centre of gravity is the part that hits the moon but since this is not necessarily true, we also have to take into account which part of the hammer or feather is nearest to the moon before the two objects were released (assuming that the centre of gravity of both objects are at the same level on release) !The real answer is that there is not enough data for us to know which will hit the moon first !The famous experiment by Astronaut Dave Scott on the moon is not very precise.Dr HW Looi
