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You drop balls of varying mass, foam ball, soccer ball and a bowling ball, from the same height on Earth.Will they reach the Earth at the same time?
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You drop balls of varying mass, foam ball, soccer ball and a bowling ball, from the same height on Earth.Will they reach the Earth at the same time?

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We know that assuming there is no wind resistance or anything similar, all objects will fall at the same rate, thus it won't matter the mass of the object; all objects dropped from a same height will touch the Earth at the same time.

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