gravity acts

Classical Mechanics Level 1

If an apple and a bowling ball are dropped in vacuum from the same height, which will hit the ground first?

they will both fall at the same time the bowling ball will fall first the apple will fall first

Samantha Valincius by samantha valincius , 16, USA

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

2 solutions

Does it not depend on the air resistance of both objects, suggesting the apple will land first as it has a smaller surface area and so less air resistance.

0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

It is a vacuum.

Siva Budaraju - 3 years, 2 months ago

He specified in the question that it is a vacuum therefore there is NO AIR.

Krishna Karthik - 1 year, 7 months ago

since gravity acts the same on both the bowling ball and the apple, both will reach the ground at the same time

0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

The answer is correct only if the balls are dropped in vacuum. Otherwise, due to the effect of the air-resistance, the bowling ball will land first. There was a problem similar to this, where the issue has been debated in great detail: https://brilliant.org/problems/galileos-experiment-2/#!/solution-comments/177414/

Laszlo Mihaly - 3 years, 2 months ago

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...