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If you exclude the resistance the air has on the two raindrops, both the small and the lager raindrops will travel at the same speed i.e. 32ft a second every second (The first second 32ft, the second second 64ft per second and so on). But because we do have air resistance which will resist the gravitational attraction, the raindrop with the larger mass will reach the ground first.

As a point of further interest, if an object falls from a very high altitude the resistance of the air will equal the pull of gravity and the object will continue to fall at the same speed, this is called terminal velocity.

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