Mrs. Bryant's class decides to perform an experiment during a class connect session to determine how long it takes different objects to hit the floor when dropped from the student's desk. Each student dropped three notebooks, one weighing 0.5 pound, one weighing 1.0 pound, and one weighing 2.5 pounds. What would you predict about the times it took for each of them to hit the floor? a) The 0.5lb notebook would hit the floor first b) The 0.5lb notebook would hit the floor last c) The 2.5lb notebook would hit the floor first d) All notebooks would fall at the same time e) All notebooks would remain suspended in the air

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Josh

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18 March, 12:22

Mrs. Bryant's class decides to perform an experiment during a class connect session to determine how long it takes different objects to hit the floor when dropped from the student's desk. Each student dropped three notebooks, one weighing 0.5 pound, one weighing 1.0 pound, and one weighing 2.5 pounds. What would you predict about the times it took for each of them to hit the floor? a) The 0.5lb notebook would hit the floor first b) The 0.5lb notebook would hit the floor last c) The 2.5lb notebook would hit the floor first d) All notebooks would fall at the same time e) All notebooks would remain suspended in the air

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Emmett Schaefer · Answer 1

All three notebooks would take the same amount of time to hit he floor (d).

On Earth, any falling object that's not affected too much by air resistance, no matter how much mass it has or how much it weighs, accelerates at the rate of 9.8 m/s², and falls the same distance in the same amount of time as all other falling objects. That's just how gravity works.