GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Heavier things have a greater gravitational force AND heavier things have a lower acceleration. It turns out that these two effects exactly cancel to make falling objects have the same acceleration regardless of mass.

Detailed explanation-2: -Given two objects of the same size but of different materials, the heavier (denser) object will fall faster because the drag and buoyancy forces will be the same for both, but the gravitational force will be greater for the heavier object.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because the downward force on an object is equal to its mass multiplied by g, heavier objects have a greater downward force. Heavier objects, however, also have more inertia, which means they resist moving more than lighter objects do, and so heaver objects need more force to get them going at the same rate.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1, 000 years up until Galileo’s time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that weighed twice as much as another would fall twice as fast.

Detailed explanation-5: -Heavier objects hit the ground first as they have very less air resistance.