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Old 06-27-09 | 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by supramax
If you drop a 10 pound rock and a 100 pound rock from the same height at the same time; they both reach the ground at the same time.
That actually isn't completely true. If you dropped them from a plane at high altitude, the heavier rock, if it was made of the same material, and shaped about the same, would hit sooner as it would reach a higher terminal velocity. If it was made of lighter material, like limestone compared to marble, it might hit later. If it was sculpted into a wide sheet with a slight bowl shape, it might drift off target or shimmy down like a sheet of paper. If one rock was shaped like a spear it would drop faster than one shaped like a snowflake.

If you dropped them from 20 feet, they'd hit pretty much at the same time.

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