Thursday, October 23, 2014

Falling through Air



This video clears up common misconceptions about falling objects in free fall. The man walks around asking people on their thoughts about what would happen if you dropped two equally sized  balls with different weight from the same height. The point of this demonstration was to explain that weight does not change the speed of an object in free fall because the both will have the same acceleration. The only thing that affects the time an object takes to fall in free fall is the height and acceleration of an object. If you were to shot a bullet and drop a bullet shell from the same height, they would hit the ground at the same time because they have the same acceleration and height. This video reconfirmed a topic I struggled with earlier on this unit. It was also interesting to see how my inital thoughts on free fall matched the randomly sampled pedestrians in the videos.

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