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  • 08-02-2020
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What is the acceleration due to gravity of a feather? Is it smaller than that of an iron ball?

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  • 08-02-2020

A hammer and a feather will fall with the same constant acceleration if air resistance is considered negligible. This is a general characteristic of gravity not unique to Earth, as astronaut David R. Scott demonstrated on the Moon in 1971, where the acceleration due to gravity is only 1.67 m/s2.

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