Thrown out of an FBO...

Bob Noel wrote:
In article ,
Jim Logajan wrote:
But the bottom line is under "ideal" conditions a heavy stone "falls"
a teeny tiny miniscule bit faster to the earth than a light feather
would.

um, not quite. The force on the more massive object is still just
proportional to the earth's mass. What happens is the earth moves
towards the more massive object more so than towards the less massive
object.

Or have I totally botched my freshman physics?

You got it right. But to the person standing on the earth trying to time
the fall, the more massive object appears to drop a tiny bit faster (but
I'm not sure the drop time difference could even be measured for most
ordinary cases).

It's really a pedantic issue unless one is dealing with objects of
comparable masses, like the perturbations of planetary orbits due to other
planets.

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:37:33 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote:


You got it right. But to the person standing on the earth trying to time
the fall, the more massive object appears to drop a tiny bit faster (but
I'm not sure the drop time difference could even be measured for most
ordinary cases).

It's really a pedantic issue unless one is dealing with objects of
comparable masses, like the perturbations of planetary orbits due to other
planets.

Ya gonna drop the marble and the bowling ball at the same time?
Counting the Earth, that's three bodies. I thought the three-body
problem was insoluble?

Don

In article ,
Jim Logajan wrote:

You got it right. But to the person standing on the earth trying to time
the fall, the more massive object appears to drop a tiny bit faster (but
I'm not sure the drop time difference could even be measured for most
ordinary cases).

If the feather and hammer are dropped at the same time and are next
to each other. otoh - if the hammer is dropped at the true north pole
and the feather were dropped at the true south pole...

:-)

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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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If the feather and hammer are dropped at the same time and are next
to each other. otoh - if the hammer is dropped at the true north pole
and the feather were dropped at the true south pole...

Ahhh, but more importantly, is the feather from an African or European
swallow...

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or I shall taunt you a second time"

"Grumman-581" wrote:
"Bob Noel" wrote in message
...
If the feather and hammer are dropped at the same time and are next
to each other. otoh - if the hammer is dropped at the true north pole
and the feather were dropped at the true south pole...

Ahhh, but more importantly, is the feather from an African or European
swallow...

I don't know!

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
thud