Originally Posted by
trekker pete
Weight, all buy itself will not determine terminal velocity. The combination of weight, size and Cd will determine a terminal velocity.
Keeping the other factors constant, including a present normal atmosphere....
make it heavier, it will fall faster.
make it larger, it will fall slower
increase the Cd, it will fall slower
shave its legs, others will laugh at it if it happens to be a guy.
The force of gravity is constant. Here's an old and often used experiment for you to try, that proves that heavier objects do NOT fall faster. You gotta hammer? Hold it parallel to the ground and drop it. Do report your findings.
Anyways, I don't see any point in continuing to debate this with the "objects with different weights fall at different rates" crowd. That was disproven long ago.