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33 questions linked to/from Why do two bodies of different masses fall at the same rate (in the absence of air resistance)?
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Free falling of object with no air resistance [duplicate]
Why does an object with smaller mass hits the ground at same time compared to object with greater mass? I understand the acceleration due to gravity of earth will be same but won't the object with ...
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Why two balls of different mass dropped from the same height hit the ground at the same time? [duplicate]
When two balls of different masses are dropped from equal height, they reach the ground at the same time. Can anyone explain this in terms of physics?
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Why does gravity cause objects to pull other objects with constant acceleration and not constant force? [duplicate]
I know that this may come off as an incredibly dumb question, but please hear me out for a while.
Why don't objects just tug at other bodies with a constant force? Instead, why do they apply ...
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Why do objects with different masses fall at the same rate? [duplicate]
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Confused about the role of mass
Today we were in our Literature class talking about the Renaissance and the Enlightement and our teacher also said that scientific experiments ...
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Why does two objects with different weights fall at the same time, taking air resistance to be negligible? [duplicate]
For instance, since weight is given by mass x gravitational field strength and assuming both objects have the same gravitational field strength and the only changing variable is its mass, why do they ...
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Why do 2 bodies of different masses reach the ground at the same time? [duplicate]
Since inertia is the quantity that resists change in motion, and is represented by mass, and if two different objects are dropped from the same height, shouldn't the heavier mass accelerate less than ...
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Why are non-equally heavy objects falling at the same speed on the moon? [duplicate]
This is no duplicate. I have own questions to it, that I want to have explained.
I recently read about this thing Galileo discovered with severel experiments. Everything, with any mass, falls at the ...
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Why mass has no effect on free-fall acceleration? [duplicate]
I learned that mass is a property of objects that specifies how much resistance an object exhibits to accelerate.
So, pushing an object with a greater mass would cause a smaller acceleration than ...
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Why bodies with different masses reach gound at the same time in vacuum? [duplicate]
According to Newton's Gravitation Equation $$F=G \dfrac{M\cdot m}{r^2}$$ force of gravity depends upon mass of both objects, and $$F=ma$$ means force is proportional to acceleration. Then why do ...
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About acceleration of gravity [duplicate]
By second law of motion, acceleration is produced by applied force on a body.
Then value of acceleration due to gravity would be different for different bodies on Earth, as the gravity force for them ...
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Acceleration of two masses by gravitational force [duplicate]
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Confused about the role of mass
I know that two different masses fall at the same rate in the same gravitational field because the greater gravitational force of the heavier ...
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How can we prove simply that acceleration for every freely falling body is equal to $g$? [duplicate]
If I allow two bodies of different masses to fall freely from same height towards the earth, how can I prove that the acceleration produced in both was constant and equal to gravity.
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why do all objects of varying mass acelerate the same? [duplicate]
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Confused about the role of mass
why is it that two object of varying mass will fall at the same speed in a frictionless enviorment like the moon?
Is it because the object ...
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Why the Earth's gravitational acceleration is the same for every body? [duplicate]
As i understand forces gives bodys acceleration. And mass resist this acceleration. So why does every body, regardless of their mass, gains the same acceleration when they are in earths gravitational ...
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Velocity of a falling body as a function of time AND mass [duplicate]
I'm working on a small java program, and I was wondering if there was an equation to calculate the approximate velocity of a falling body, in function to its mass $M$ and the time $t$ since the ...
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