Apple and Feather will Fall on Ground at the Same Time

The air offers much greater resistance to the falling motion of the feather than it does to the brick. If a feather and a brick were dropped together in a vacuum—that is, an area from which all air has been removed they would fall at the same rate, and hit the ground at the same time. Galileo discovered that objects that are denser or have more mass, fall at a faster rate than less dense objects, due to this air resistance a feather and brick dropped together.

The video takes Galileo's famous experiment to a new level, where both heavy and light objects are dropped at the same time to see which will hit the ground faster. Spoiler: the answer is that they will all fall at the exact same rate. Though some objects, like feathers, seem to fall slower because of air resistance.

Apple and Feather will Fall on Ground at the Same Time


In order to see the true nature of gravity affecting the feathers, you need to remove all the air in the room. The fact is in explaining Einstein's theory:- 
"The reason the bowling ball and the feather fall together is because they're not falling. They are standing still. There is no force acting on them at all."
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At a given location on the earth and in the absence of air resistance, all objects fall with the same uniform acceleration. Thus, two objects of different mass, dropped from the same height, will hit the ground at the same time. As all subjects fall down at the same rate inside the vacuum chamber, gravity is not due to the attraction gravity of earth.

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