Gravitational force acts on all objects in proportion to their masses. Why then, a heavy object does not fall faster than a light object?
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Gravitational force acts on all objects in proportion to their masses. But a heavy object does not fall faster than a light object. This is because of the reason that Acceleration= Force/Mass or Force = Acceleration x Mass As force is directly proportional to mass, acceleration is constant for a body of any mass.
Answer:Yes if you drop an watermelon and an egg together from a same height and at same time the both will touch the ground at the the same time. This happens so because the gravitational pull of earth(g) is very large it is 9.8m/s^2 it seems to be very small but it is very large because it is calculated by universal gravitational constant(G) that is 6.673*10^-11 N*m^2/kg^2
Derivation of g is g=G*m1*m2/r^2
Where m1 is the mass of earth(6* 10^24kg) and m2 is the mass of an object let’s say a watermelon that might be 1 kg and r is the radius of the earth(6.4*10^22 km) so formula is g=G*6*10^24kg/(6.4*10^22km)^2
g=6.673*10^-11*6*10^24kg/6.4*10^22*6.4*10^22 km^2
g=9.8m/s^2
It only happens because earths gravitational force is very strong
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