The Drop

While my brother and I were watching tv at home one day, my brother started throwing things at me. When he threw a baseball and a mini-basketball at me, it occured to me that I could use both of those objects to show gravity's equal pull on all objects. When I told my brother that they would surely land at the same time, he didn't believe me and bet me a dollar. I decided to prove it to him by showing him first hand. Gravity has equal acceleration on all objects at -9.8 m/s2. Although the much smaller baseball had a different mass than the larger basketball, they both landed at the same time. I knew that air resistance can slow down certain objects, but it didn't affect the baseball or the basketball when I dropped them. My brother still never paid me for losing the bet. Hopefully the next entry I write will be more interesting.