Originally Posted by
Febs
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?
Most people use feathers for that experiment.
To repeat: "The speed of a falling body is independent of its weight."
Please do try to get your head around that statement. Don't infer what is not implied.