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Can you compare the rate of fall of a heavy and light object of the same size and shape?
A:
They will fall at exactly the same time! Gravity, or weight, will pull on everything at the same rate of 9.8 meters per second squared. If they are the same size and shape, they will hit the ground at exactly the same time, even if they have different masses.
Posted on December 5, 2013 at 3:01 am
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