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Which object would fall to the ground faster?

Retry Correct Incorrect While all of these items have varying weights, they’d all fall to the ground at the same speed or acceleration. According to the University of California, Santa Barbara, “The acceleration due to gravity is about 10 m/s² everywhere around the earth, so all objects experience the same acceleration when they fall.”

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Which object would fall to the ground faster?

• A boulder
• A stack of books
• A twig
• They’d all fall at the same speed