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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The acceleration from gravity would be the same no matter the object mass (~9.8m/s²).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh yes! I omitted that part, but what I meant to say is that mass and inertia balance each other, so that in the end the acceleration from gravity ends up the same for any object.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The bowling ball will still pull the Earth more. For us, everything accelerates at 9.8m/s² (because we all fall to the same Earth), but the Earth accelerates differently per attracting object.