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Subject: speed of falling object

Posted by Steve Cleverley
Grade level: nonaligned
School: hard knocks
City: Memphis State/Province: TN
Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
Message:
This is a questions which I have argued before with friends and they never 
believe me. Possible a responce from such an august body as yours will 
convince them.
If one drops a bullet as the same time as one fires a similar one from a gun 
from identical heights.. Which will strike the ground first. Assuming we are 
in a perfect world. No extraneous factors.
I say at the same time as the acceleration due to gravity is a constant and 
has nothing to do with the angular velocity imparted by the gun.


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