Sage-Tips

Why does a heavy object not fall faster than a lighter object?

Answer: All objects fall on ground with constant acceleration, called acceleration due to gravity (in the absence of air resistances). It is constant and does not depend upon the mass of an object. Hence, heavy objects do not fall faster than light objects.

Why did Aristotle believed that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects?

Why did Aristotle believe that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects? Aristotle believed that heavier objects felt a larger force and a larger force made the object move faster.

Does Earth’s gravity makes heavy objects fall faster than light objects?

A: Yes, if both objects are dropped together then they hit the Earth at the same time. If they are dropped at different times, the heavy one is just a tiny bit quicker to hit the Earth because it pulls the Earth toward it more.

Why is the fall and impact of a small lightweight object different from the fall and impact of a more massive object?

Thus, more massive objects fall faster than less massive objects because they are acted upon by a larger force of gravity; for this reason, they accelerate to higher speeds until the air resistance force equals the gravity force.

Why does gravity pull harder on heavier objects?

Gravity pulls harder on heavier objects because it pulls the same on each grain of the object, and a pound (7000 gr) has more grains than an ounce (437.5 gr). You have that backwards. They are heavier because gravity pulls harder on them. That’s what weight is, the pull of gravity.

Why doesn’t a heavy object accelerate more than a light object when both are freely falling?

Why doesn’t a heavy object accelerate more than a lighter object when both are freely falling? o Because the greater mass offsets the equally greater force; whereas force tends to accelerate things, mass tends to resist acceleration. What are the 2 principal factors that affect the force of air resistance?

What was Aristotle’s theory on gravity?

The Aristotelian explanation of gravity is that all bodies move toward their natural place. For the elements earth and water, that place is the center of the (geocentric) universe; the natural place of water is a concentric shell around the earth because earth is heavier; it sinks in water.

How did Aristotle change our understanding of gravity?

Aristotle further believed that objects fall at a speed that is proportional to their weight. In other words, if you took a wooden object and a metal object of the same size and dropped them both, the heavier metal object would fall at a proportionally faster speed.

Why do objects accelerate as they fall?

When objects fall to the ground, gravity causes them to accelerate. Gravity causes an object to fall toward the ground at a faster and faster velocity the longer the object falls. In fact, its velocity increases by 9.8 m/s2, so by 1 second after an object starts falling, its velocity is 9.8 m/s.

How does the distance of two objects from each other affect the gravitational pull?

Since gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the separation distance between the two interacting objects, more separation distance will result in weaker gravitational forces. So as two objects are separated from each other, the force of gravitational attraction between them also decreases.

Why do heavy and light objects have the same acceleration?

Answer 1: Heavy objects fall at the same rate (or speed) as light ones. The acceleration due to gravity is about 10 m/s2 everywhere around earth, so all objects experience the same acceleration when they fall.

Does air resistance on a falling object increase or does it decrease with increasing speed?

How much air resistance the object encounters depends on the speed the object is traveling and the cross sectional area of the object. When the object is falling faster, this increases air resistance.