Galileo drops a bowling ball, baseball, and crow's wing feather from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. ?
Galileo drops a bowling ball, baseball, and crow's wing feather from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. ?
Which objects hit first,second and third. Now see i thought that the heaviest object would hit first so i thought the order would be bowlingball,baseball and then the feather but i got the question wrong..so does any one know the order the objects would hit the ground. They hit at the same time. its the correct answer but not totally true if there was no air friction hey would hit at the same time, but were surrounded by air so you were technically right, but not theoretically.the bowling ball and baseball would hit at the same time and the feather would come next
it depends. if you drop them inside a vacuum tube, then three of them will hit the ground in the same time. because in vacuum, all objects will fall with equal acceleration, which is 9,8 m/s^2, regardless their mass. but, if you drop them outside vacuum tube, so all three of them experience air drag, your answer is correct. because in the heaviest object (bowling ball), air drag has negligible effect, whereas in the lightest object (crow's feather), air drag has huge effect. just drop a bowling ball and a feather from 1 meters height, you will see that bowling ball will travel straight to the ground, whereas feather will move about aimlessly before hit the ground. in this case, it is clear that feather needs longer time