2006-08-30 13:37:32 · 17 answers · asked by juliefellegy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
They will in a vacuum, an air tight vacuum. Space is a vacuum. An astronaut performed that experiment on the Moon, it worked.
2006-08-30 13:39:48 · answer #1 · answered by jxt299 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. even as falling, products accellerate because of the impact of gravity. so that they commence from 0 % and, if there aren't any exterior impacts,(air, magnetism, electricity, gentle etc.) then they proceed to accelarate till they hit something. the speed is in no way consistent - continuously replacing. what's actual that in those circumstances both a feather and a coin will take a similar TIME to fall a similar distance. In a laboratory tube there will be impacts mutually with static electricity which will impact the feather more effective than the coin. gentle excerts a stress which will have extra outcome on the better feather so the try could be performed contained in the darkish (how do you degree contained in the darkish?) Magnetism (the Earth's or different) would have an outcome on a conductive merchandise mutually with a coin - so this is not purely a lack of air this is mandatory - also it desires to be a large vacuum loose from all different forces.
2016-12-06 00:27:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that air tight space is a vacuum,yes.If there is air in there then the feather will succumb to wind resistance and fall much more slowly than the hammer.
2006-08-30 13:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Danny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in an air tight space. They will fall at the same rate in a vacuum.
2006-08-30 13:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by Albannach 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Everything would fall at the same rate if there is no air resistance. A microbe would fall as fast as a brick.
Even light itself would be attracted to gravity at the same rate.
2006-08-30 13:54:32 · answer #5 · answered by Jay T 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there wasn't any air at all, they'd fall at the same rate. But if you were to drop them in space, they'll just float or fall into orbit.
2006-08-30 13:41:28 · answer #6 · answered by Katt Attack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if your talking about space then they will fly at the same rate but in a vacuum they will fall at the same rate
2006-08-30 13:43:03 · answer #7 · answered by jeff 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, in a vacum (bad spellllingz) the feather wouldn't fall at all, it would implode or be ripped apart or somthing like that.
2006-08-30 14:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean a vacuum, then yes, they will accelerate at the same rate in the same gravitational field.
2006-08-30 13:40:28 · answer #9 · answered by none2perdy 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, But only if there is no Air resistance
2006-08-30 13:44:44 · answer #10 · answered by Shano3651 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋