Gravity of the Earth exerts the same amount of pull on an object no matter its mass. How does the velocity vs time graph of a free falling object change when the mass increases/decreases?
The velocity doesn't change. The rate of fall is a constant no matter the mass. Everything is falling at the same speed. Galileo Galilei proved it.
Systematic experiments on freely falling objects and objects moving on inclined planes were carried out by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Freely falling objects are objects not supported by anything and not acted on by any forces except the gravitational force. Near the surface of the earth such objects are accelerating. This acceleration is due to the gravitational force acting between the objects and the earth. The direction of the gravitational acceleration vector is towards the center of the earth. Its magnitude decreases as one over the square of the distance from the center of the earth. The radius of the earth is 6368 km. If you climb a 1000 m high mountain, your distance from the center of the earth changes by (1/6368)麓100 % = 0.016 % and the magnitude of the acceleration vector changes by (1/6368)2麓100 % = 2.4麓10-6 %. For all objects near the surface of the earth the distance from the center is nearly constant, and the magnitude of the gravitational acceleration vector is therefore approximately constant. We denote the gravitational acceleration vector by g. Its magnitude is g = 9.8 m/s2 and its direction is straight downward. Over small distances, when the curvature of the earth's surface can be neglected, the direction of the gravitational acceleration vector is also nearly constant.
Near the surface of the earth g is the same for all objects. All objects accelerate at approximately the same rate. Freely falling objects are therefore objects, which are moving with constant acceleration g.How does the velocity vs time graph of a free falling object change when the mass increases/decreases?
doesn't change one bit.
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