It may seem obvious at first – but is it?
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The laws of gravity dictate that a bowling ball will always drop faster than a feather. I remember in physics that everything falls the same. Daily Popular: Sponsored links: Watch a feather and a bowling ball drop at the exact same speed in the largest vacuum chamber in the world. MS (published on 10/22/2007) In other words, if you went to the moon (where there is no atmosphere) and dropped a feather, a rock, a tennis ball and a basketball, they would all hit the ground at the same time. The bowling ball has a greater mass, so there's more stuff for gravity to act on. The heavier the object, the faster it falls. If you dropped a feather and a hammer from the same height, which would fall faster? In this hypnotizing clip from the BBC, Cox drops a bowling ball and a feather together, first in normal conditions, and then after virtually all the air has been sucked out of the chamber. If you drop a heavy and light object together, the heavy one will get to the ground first. Sponsored links: If you like this video, please share it: and Subscribe! But try the same experiment in a giant vacuum and that's when it gets interesting. In that sense, gravity is pulling on it more. If the feather is the same weight as the bowling ball, it will fall at the same rate in a vacuum. But it still doesn't fall any faster. This is trick question. Heaver objects fall faster. What Falls Faster: A Feather Or A Bowling Ball?

Which falls faster - a feather or a hammer?
If there were no air, all objects would fall at exactly the same rate.

In air, the feather will be slowed down by the greater exposure to air resistance. Let's find out!