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Old 06-27-09 | 11:57 AM
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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?
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