Question

Gravitational force acts on all objects in proportion to their masses. Why then, a heavy object does not fall faster than a light object?

Answer 1

“If gravitational force acts on all objects in proportion to their masses, then why doesn’t a heavy object fall faster than a light object?”

Why? Because gravity acts in proportion to mass!

It takes twice as much force to produce a given rate of acceleration on a given mass as the force that would produce that rate of acceleration on an object of half that mass.

If gravity exerted the same force on every object regardless of the object’s mass, then lighter objects would fall faster, right? (Same force, less mass => greater acceleration). But it doesn’t, it exerts more force on an object of greater mass, so that the acceleration is the same.

For heavier objects to fall faster, gravity would have to exert much more force on them, right?

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Answer 2

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The acceleration due to gravity of freely falling body is independent of mass of falling body. Thus, both heavy and light object will fall with same acceleration.