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To: WildTurkey

very, very slightly.
not enough to measure by any method available to science at this time.

it is, like the chemistry error you corrected for me, a matter of convenient shorthand: the Earth's mass (and, thus, gravity, is so disproportionately huge that the difference between the gravitic acceleration of a 1kg mass vs. a 5kg mass is so small it cannot be measured directly.


2,157 posted on 02/14/2005 11:10:00 AM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: King Prout
very, very slightly. not enough to measure by any method available to science at this time.

Actually, it depends on the order. If you drop them at the same time, true. If you pick up the 10# and drop it and then pick up the 2# and drop it, they will fall in the same time.

2,158 posted on 02/14/2005 11:13:22 AM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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