Things fall at the same speed?
I read that if you drop a coin and an elephant from the same height that they will hit the ground at the same time, all items will fall at the same speed no matter on the weight.
well i dropped a coin and a feather off my balcony, and the feather landed ages after the coin, so surely the people who discovered this are wrong?
i want to try with an elephant and a coin to see, but i dont have an elephant and that would be cruel just to throw one of a balcony.
so what other items different in mass and size does this work with, and how can they say it applies to all items when it clearly doesnt!
Think i have to much time on my hands, lol.
Obviously since gravitational mass and inertial mass are equal, all objects would fall with the same acceleration and reach the same speed in the same time in a vacuum.
The rate at which an object falls in a resisting medium depends on its surface area compared to its mass. So….
You could try scrunching up your feather..reducing surface area
Or..Dropping two objects of the same density but different mass..large coin/v small coin (the large coin wins because the surface area/mass ratio is smaller.
On the elephant/balcony scenario..fit your pachyderm with springs or a bunjee rope, and shout ‘lookout below!’- sounds safe and sensible enough to me…
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