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PHIL Thrown out of an FBO...
Jose wrote:
Boy, I hate to be pedantic about this, but in a vacuum the heavier object _will_ reach the surface of the earth faster than a lighter one if both are released the same height above the ground. That depends where they come from. If you pick up the feather (leaving the stone on the ground), the stone's mass is part of the Earth's mass. If you then drop the feather and pick up the stone, the feather becomes part of the Earth's mass for that experiment. The total mass is the same. But suppose the "stone" is half the earth! |
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