Observing the Effect of Gravitational Force
Direction: Perform the activity given below and write your answers in your activity
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Problem: Does weight affect how fast the object fall?
What You Need: metal spoon and plastic spoon
What You Need To Do:
1. Get a metal spoon and a plastic spoon
2. Put the two spoons in each hand
3. Drop the spoons at the same time and observe what spoon hit the floor first
4. Do this three times
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Answer:
YES weight affect how fast the object fall
Heavier things have a greater gravitational force AND heavier things have a lower acceleration. It turns out that these two effects exactly cancel to make falling objects have the same acceleration regardless of mass.