Hello Paul!

25 Mar 18 15:19, Paul Quinn wrote to David Drummond:

 PQ> The enactment of Galileo's postulation that in an airless environment 
 PQ> a hammer & feather, when released earthward from a height, will both 
 PQ> 'hit the dirt' at precisely the same moment.

This is a standard experiment in school and university physics courses, only
that on earth you have to put things (usually a feather and a metal ball) into
a glass tube tha can be evacuated. The different behaviour (free fall in air
vs. vacuum) is pretty obvious.


Regards,
Gerrit

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