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Why does a heavy and a light object hit the ground at the same time?
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Heavy objects fall with the same acceleration as light objects, and reach the same speed
after falling for the same length of time. If there's any difference noted, it's the result of
air resistance, and the difference doesn't show up when there is no air. The reason is
because that's how gravity works. If it seems to you that it should not work this way,
then by all means, please explain why not.
Seems to us that when someone wishes some aspect of creation were different, the burden
should be his to explain why it should be different, and not the job of anyone else to justify
why it is as it is.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoit only hits the same time if it is the same what like if u had 10 pounds of feathers and a ten pound Bowling ball they would hit at the same time because they both way 10 pounds but if u had 5 pounds of feathers and a ten pound bowling ball the ball would hit the ground first because it is heavier.
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The answer above is a beautifully written, tightly-worded, clear, concise statement, that
describes what everybody throughout human history took for granted, based on everything
we see around us every day, until it was proven wrong about 600 years ago.
Feathers might fall slower than bowling balls when they're falling through air, because
they're bigger, and they have a harder time pushing enough air out of the way.
But if you try it inside a container with no air, you'd see a bowling ball and a single feather
fall together and hit the bottom at the same time. Really.
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoLight and heavy objects fall at the same time because they are both influenced by the same force that pulls them down. This force is called the force of gravity.
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Definion for desinty for a child to understand...?
The heaviness of each particle. For example, a rock is made of heavier particles than a piece of cloth so if you were to get the same quantity of each item and drop it, than the rock would hit the ground first since it is more dense. An improved version: Density is a measurement that describes how heavy an object is for a given volume. For example: an object has high density if it is heavy and has a small volume (e.g. gold), and an object has low density if it is light and has a large volume (e.g. balloon).
Why the object appear when you put the object in front of mirror?
light bounces off an object and on to the miorror surface where it is then reflected at the same wavelength as it was casted on to there with
The closer the light source the shadow is what?
The closer the light source the larger is the shadow. You can understand this effect using the paraxial aproximation of light theory. If you draw lines from the light source to the edges of an object, there is an angle (call it alpha) between the these lines and the orthonormal vector to the object. The shorter the distance between the light and the object, the higher is alpha (because the height of the object is always the same): tan(alpha) = (height of the object)/(distance between light and object) Of course the relationship between the height of the shadow and the angle is the same: tan(alpha) = (height of the shadow)/(distance to the wall in which the shadow is proyected) So, the higher the angle alpha (and closer the distance between light and object), the heigher is the shadow.
Is gold non luminous object?
sun (a luminous object) emits its own light and the moon ( a non luminous object ) reflects the light from the sun to earth that's how we can see the moon. The same way gold is a non luminous object.
The color of an opaque object is the same as the light that is?
...reflected off of it. For example, leaves appear green as their pigment (chlorophyll) only reflects the wavelength of green light.
How could you determine if it will take the same time for the lighter and heavier object to reach the ground when dropped at the same height in the same time?
drop a heavy object and a light object from the same height at the same time. time it with a stopwatch, or just watch them.
Which would hit the ground first a heavy object or a light object?
If they don't have to plow through air on the way down, then yes. If they don't fall with the same acceleration and hit bottom at the same speed and the same time regardless of their weights, then it was air that interfered.
Why does a heavy object fall at the same rate as a light object in a vacuum?
cause the two have lost their weight
Do heavy objects fall to the ground before light objects?
No, they fall at the same time.
If 500-n force is applide to a 10-kg and 5-kg which one accelerates faster?
they will accelerate at the same time. Just like what happens when a heavy and light object are dropped from the same height in a vacuum, they will reach the ground at the same time.
How does a heavy object have the same volume as a light object?
It could be two items of the same size, but made out of different materials, for instance, one made of aluminum, and another made of iridium.
Why do paper aeroplanes fly in the air?
paper aeroplanes flies in air because they less resist the air. For example- if you drop a heavy object and a paper from same height, the heavy object reaches first to ground and the paper will reach ground after the object. Similarly, paper plane flies for some time in air then it comes down.
Does a heavier object always have more inertia than a lighter object?
Inertia is "rotary momentum"; an object's ability to continue spinning when a decelerating force is applied.Just as a heavy object takes more effort to stop from the same speed as a light object, so does a heavy object take more effort to stop from turning at the same speed as a light object.So assuming they are turning at the same angular velocity, the heavier one has a larger inertia. Otherwise, remember that inertia is also proportional to angular velocity.
Why do objects all fall at the same time when gravity is the only force acting?
-- Because that's the way gravity behaves. -- Because is would be ridiculous to think that heavy objects fall faster. Here's why: ==> Let's say that heavy objects fall faster and light objects fall slower. ==> Take a piece of sticky tape and stick a light object onto the back of a heavy object. Then drop them together off of a roof. ==> The light object tries to fall slower and holds back, and the heavy object tries to fall faster and pulls forward. So when they're stuck together, they fall at some in-between speed. ==> But wait! When they're stuck together they weigh more than the heavy object alone. So how can a stuck-together object that's heavier than the heavy object alone fall at a speed that's slower than the heavy object alone ? ! ? Isn't that ridiculous ? There's no way that heavy objects can fall faster than light objects.
What object falls faster a heavy object or a light object in a vacuum?
They both fall at the same rate. This is because they are both only acted upon by one force in the vacuum- gravitational acceleration. The mass, size or shape of the object do not influence the object's motion in a vacuum.
Will the object that is dropped hit the ground before an object that is that it is thrown horizontally from the same height?
No. They both hit the ground at the same time, because the VERTICAL component of velocity in both cases is the same.
Is an object that is dropped will hit the ground before an object that is thrown horizontally from the same height?
No. They both hit the ground at the same time. This is because the VERTICAL component of velocity in both cases is the same.
