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Because here on Earth, in the 'laboratory' where you must make all of your observations,

everything you see falling must fall through air. The presence of air has a substantial

effect on what you observe.

If you could do the experiments without air, and have nothing but gravity affect your

falling objects, you would see a feather and a truck fall with the same acceleration,

reach the bottom at the same time, and hit the ground with the same speed.

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