
02-28-2004, 08:12 AM
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call me Chad, it's cooler
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 1,899
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oooh, Physics time! *cracks knuckles* oh, man they really cracked, ow...
It is true that if you were to drop a bowling ball and a tennis ball at the same time from the same height they would hit the ground at presicely the same moment. This is because the acceleration due to gravity is the same for every object on earth (granted the acceleration does differ from place to place, trust me). But it is not also true that if you drop a feather and a ball of, well any sort, the ball would hit first. This is because of air resistance. While it is not obvious, air resistance affects most flying objects. Baseballs, bullets, planes, birds, and even arrows are among these things. So um, this is getting boring so I'll just say that ICBST an arrow is affected by air resistance on a much greater level than a tossed bowling ball or well even a much heavier arrow....
ICBST means it can be shown that, or it can be bs'ed that (according to my phys class)
hey, a tonne is different than a ton fellers |
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