I really need to know to pass this test or i will fail!!!! i will love you forever if you tell me the answer!True or false?In free fall, all objects fall with the same acceleration.?
willehj4 is not quite right, confused velocity with acceleration. He is right about velocity, it depends on air resistance. But your question is acceleration. The answer is true, acceleration of gravity (more technically the force due to gravity) is the same regardless of mass. But with a couple important caveats...
1) the acceleration will be the same instantaneously when the objects start to fall, i.e., when the velocity is too slow for air resistance to be a factor.
2) As the velocity increases, the measured rate of change in velocity (acceleration) will differ as the air resistance begins to become significant.
3) this is only true if you are talking about free falling objects around one planet. A free falling object near earth will experience a different gravitational force than a free fall object near mars.
Hope this helpsTrue or false?In free fall, all objects fall with the same acceleration.?
Objects of different masses will fall side by side if they are in a vacuum. If they're not in a vacuum, they will have different terminal velocities - they stop accelerating when the weight force balances the air resistance and other resistance forces.
So the answers is yes if they are in a vacuum, but no if not.
The answer is yes and the acceleration would be 9,8m/s^2 for our beautiful planet Earth.
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