Originally Posted by
supramax
Get this through your heads, guys: The speed of a falling body is independent of its weight. This is a scientific fact, a law.
OK, Galileo.
I just dropped a book and a single sheet of paper from the same height. The book hit the ground first. Someone call the physics police! I broke the scientific law according to supramax!
In all seriousness, you need to understand that air resistance imparts a force on a falling object and that your "scientific fact" is only true of an object in a vacuum. Put a 1 lb weight on a small parachute. Put a 1
ton weight on the same parachute. Do you think that they'll fall at the same rate?