If I throw anything out of Earth's gravity well, it will continue to float until it is captured by the gravity of something else. So, yeah, if an astronaut out a GEO orbit decided to throw a battery away from the Earth, it would just keep on going...
everyone the real thing about this is that theres some thing called wind resistance (explained by newton) it affects lighter objects more than heavier ones, gravity has the same force no matter the weight of an object , test this by throwing one very very heavy object and a heavy object yes one issignificantly heavier, however neither of them have wind resistance
@pt1gard Sigh...The feather is not weighted. Feathers do not fall as quickly on earth because they experience resistance due to wind and atmospheric conditions...The moon has no wind and no atmosphere, hence the experiment works as it should.
I won't argue that, but that doesn't change the effects of acceleration, and the inertias don't counter. As I said - it's not enough to dork up spacecraft trajectories and whatnot, but it *is* measurable.
This is one of the cases where physics books are wrong. Yes, I know what they say. I also know the truth of the matter. A bowling ball *does* fall faster than a feather in a vacuum.
No, the physics books and all the physicists are not wrong. Think about this: you have 11 marbles of the same size and weight; you weld 10 of them together and leave the other separate; the welded bunch of 10 will fall at the same rate as the single marble. Even though the 10 weigh more together, every particle (or marble) has the same force working on it, even though the balls fall in tandem. Think about it. Then trust the experts sometimes.
You are both wrong. The physics books are correct, but not because every particle has the same force, but because the force of gravity is greater on an object with a greater mass, for Newton's Gravitational Law. And do not confuse mass with weight. Weight is just a convention to measure the gravitational force P=mg, (which is just a special case of Newton's Second Law F=ma).
Reread the example in my comment. If you connect 10 marbles together, each with the same mass, it will have 10 times the mass of a single marble that is unattached. The force of gravity is the same on each of the 11 marbles, because each has the same mass. The force of gravity on the 10 connected marbles combined is therefore 10 times that of the single marble, yet the connected group of 10 falls at the same rate as the single marble, even though it has 10 times the mass. Get it?
Yes, and that's how it's supposed to be. The force of gravity on the 10 connected marbles combined is 10 times greater because the combined mass is 10 times greater. The force is 10 times greater, the mass is 10 greater, so the rate of gravitational acceleration is the same as the 1 marble by itself.
Gravitational fields are additive, therefore objects that are more massive will have a greater attraction to another body (say, the Earth) than will less massive objects. Therefore, the larger object will experience more acceleration (and therefore travel the distance between the bodies more quickly)
See, an object with mass has its own gravitational field. More massive objects have larger fields, causing things to be caprtured by their "well". This is all relative, of course - a bowling ball has a larger gravitational field than a feather, but when compared to the Earth's field, they are orders of magnitude smaller.
Actually, it has been proven that more massive objects *do* tend to fall faster, and this is held up by basic physics. In terms of sitting on a planet, however, the planet's gravitational forces are so strong that the differenves in the mass (and therefore gravitational pull) of small objects is too small to really notice.
If I throw anything out of Earth's gravity well, it will continue to float until it is captured by the gravity of something else. So, yeah, if an astronaut out a GEO orbit decided to throw a battery away from the Earth, it would just keep on going...
TGBII 6 months ago
Proof indeed that man set foot on the moon
hairyairey 9 months ago
weighted feather, obviously never on moon, never went .... he should've shown the feather was real like a good magician would've, hes a hack Naut
pt1gard 11 months ago
everyone the real thing about this is that theres some thing called wind resistance (explained by newton) it affects lighter objects more than heavier ones, gravity has the same force no matter the weight of an object , test this by throwing one very very heavy object and a heavy object yes one issignificantly heavier, however neither of them have wind resistance
destroymatrixraptor 10 months ago
@pt1gard Sigh...The feather is not weighted. Feathers do not fall as quickly on earth because they experience resistance due to wind and atmospheric conditions...The moon has no wind and no atmosphere, hence the experiment works as it should.
TheAJAtom 2 months ago
@TheAJAtom ... the fuck do you know if the feather is weighted or not, move along, nasa troll
pt1gard 2 months ago
:-) nasa troll indeed...
TheAJAtom 2 months ago
lol it changes around the earth... everyone just goes with 9.8 though.
Cruzer5050 2 years ago
9.9 or 9.8 fuck yous all.
Killeroddsocks 2 years ago
i had 2 watch this for homework and i just knew id find some nerds arguin about it in comments lol
xxalexmonxx 2 years ago
i reckon this experiment proved that we went to the moon. this is aimed at conspiracy theorists
WArockets 2 years ago
I know I sound like a nerd, but that's kinda cool.
soonertiger2012 3 years ago 4
haha, my teacher was right (:. with no gravitational force. weather the object is heavy or light, both will hit the ground first
WDFeeeRk 3 years ago
I can't believe there's a debate on this page! This is fairly basic stuff!
odowdbj 3 years ago 5
There's something I find kind of weird about watching a feather dropping like a rock...
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TraKandNo 3 years ago
what all this about?
Sintos 4 years ago
geeks
poopoodoodytime 4 years ago
I won't argue that, but that doesn't change the effects of acceleration, and the inertias don't counter. As I said - it's not enough to dork up spacecraft trajectories and whatnot, but it *is* measurable.
TGBII 4 years ago
No, go read your physics book again. The acceleration is exactly the same.
kenotube 3 years ago
This is one of the cases where physics books are wrong. Yes, I know what they say. I also know the truth of the matter. A bowling ball *does* fall faster than a feather in a vacuum.
But not by much.
TGBII 3 years ago
No, the physics books and all the physicists are not wrong. Think about this: you have 11 marbles of the same size and weight; you weld 10 of them together and leave the other separate; the welded bunch of 10 will fall at the same rate as the single marble. Even though the 10 weigh more together, every particle (or marble) has the same force working on it, even though the balls fall in tandem. Think about it. Then trust the experts sometimes.
kenotube 3 years ago
Granted, it's wikipedia so you have to take some grains of salt with it. However, it's fully referenced:
Read the "problems" section
TGBII 3 years ago
You are both wrong. The physics books are correct, but not because every particle has the same force, but because the force of gravity is greater on an object with a greater mass, for Newton's Gravitational Law. And do not confuse mass with weight. Weight is just a convention to measure the gravitational force P=mg, (which is just a special case of Newton's Second Law F=ma).
EntropyMartini 2 years ago
Reread the example in my comment. If you connect 10 marbles together, each with the same mass, it will have 10 times the mass of a single marble that is unattached. The force of gravity is the same on each of the 11 marbles, because each has the same mass. The force of gravity on the 10 connected marbles combined is therefore 10 times that of the single marble, yet the connected group of 10 falls at the same rate as the single marble, even though it has 10 times the mass. Get it?
kenotube 2 years ago
Yes, and that's how it's supposed to be. The force of gravity on the 10 connected marbles combined is 10 times greater because the combined mass is 10 times greater. The force is 10 times greater, the mass is 10 greater, so the rate of gravitational acceleration is the same as the 1 marble by itself.
EntropyMartini 2 years ago
No, wrong
blackXSpr 2 years ago
Correct. 9.8 m/s^2
blackXSpr 2 years ago
actually, on the moon, about 1/6th of that.
spectrex1 2 years ago
cool story bro
blackXSpr 2 years ago
absolutely NO 9.8 on earth
MegaFragger 2 years ago
NO, its 9.8 on earth. wtf are you talkinga bout
blackXSpr 2 years ago
I said 9.9 ON EARTH!!! not ON MOON!!
MegaFragger 2 years ago
9.81
dnmry 2 years ago
sry i wrong typing
MegaFragger 2 years ago
@dnmry no 9.82 on denmark
arenms 1 year ago
Gravitational fields are additive, therefore objects that are more massive will have a greater attraction to another body (say, the Earth) than will less massive objects. Therefore, the larger object will experience more acceleration (and therefore travel the distance between the bodies more quickly)
TGBII 4 years ago
And yet larger objects have more inertia and resist acceleration more than light objects...
cropperb 4 years ago
See, an object with mass has its own gravitational field. More massive objects have larger fields, causing things to be caprtured by their "well". This is all relative, of course - a bowling ball has a larger gravitational field than a feather, but when compared to the Earth's field, they are orders of magnitude smaller.
TGBII 4 years ago
@TGBII that would mean if you threw a battery out of earth it will float away to plluto since it has brely any mass
iamgig9876 6 months ago
Actually, the more massive objects *do* fall faster. Not enough to dork up Copernican rules for trajectories & such, though.
TGBII 4 years ago
"the more massive objects *do* fall faster."
Do they? Only if you mean that heavier objects have a higher terminal velocity. But in a vacuum any object falls with the same rate as any other.
cropperb 4 years ago
Actually, it has been proven that more massive objects *do* tend to fall faster, and this is held up by basic physics. In terms of sitting on a planet, however, the planet's gravitational forces are so strong that the differenves in the mass (and therefore gravitational pull) of small objects is too small to really notice.
TGBII 4 years ago
why does mass drop from sight when blackhole goes event horzion
glennstapleton 5 years ago
@glennstapleton for the same reason that mass drops from event horizon when sight goes blackhole
kenny8331 1 year ago
galileo was right
YOVIAD10S 5 years ago
Oooh... science...
grade4 6 years ago