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They won't. Two nearly identical objects (equal-sized cubes for example) will land at the same time as long as they are heavy enough to overcome wind resistance. If you have a ten-pound ball and a twenty-pound ball, they will hit the ground at the same time. However, if you had a ball weighing less than an ounce and one weighing a pound, of course they will not hit the ground at the same time: the ball weighing less than an ounce wouldn't fall - it would be affected enough by wind resistance to slow down. If there was no air, the feather and the rock will hit the ground at the same time.

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A feather and a rock dropped at the same time from the same height would land at the same time when dropped by?

They wouldn't land at the same time. the rock will land first and quickly because a rock have bigger mass than a feather. A feather is very light, if you ever tried to drop it from some height you could see that it takes very long time to land and it might go away to another place too.


Why do feather and rock hit the ground at the same time in vacuum?

In a vacuum, there is no air resistance to slow down the falling objects. Both the feather and the rock will fall with the same acceleration due to gravity, and thus hit the ground at the same time. This is because gravity affects all objects in the same way regardless of their mass.


How do a feather and hammer hit the ground at the same time?

In a vacuum, where there is no air resistance, both a feather and a hammer would fall and hit the ground at the same time due to gravity affecting them equally. However, in the presence of air, the feather experiences more air resistance than the hammer, causing it to fall slower.


Why will the lead weight and the feather land on the ground at the same time on the moon?

In a vacuum, where air resistance does not exist, objects of different masses will fall at the same rate due to gravity. This is because all objects are subject to the same gravitational acceleration. On the moon, with no atmosphere to create air resistance, both the lead weight and the feather will experience the same gravitational pull and fall at the same rate, leading them to land on the ground simultaneously.


What would fall first a rock or a feather?

The mass is irrelevant, the only factor that effects how fast anything falls on earth is air resistance. The feathers obviously have more air resistance than the rocks and so the rocks will fall faster. If this was done in a vacuum however one gram of feathers would fall at the same rate as a tone of rocks.


If there were no air resistance how did the speeds of a feather and a penny compare?

If there was no air resistance and a feather and a penny were dropped from the same height they would both pick up speed by the same amount and they would hit the ground at the same speed and at the same time.


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 has more kinetic energy a feather floating through the air or a rock on the ground?

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Which object, a feather or a hammer, hits the ground first when dropped from the same height?

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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.


What one hits the ground first a pound of feathers or a pound of rocks?

Assuming the was no air resistance, yhey hit the ground at the same time. First you may think the feathers would land last because a feather is lighter and floats when the wind is strong. But there is exactly the same weight so they land exactly at the same time.


On the Moon if a basketball and a feather are dropped from the same height about the ground which one hits first?

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