Acceleration of Dropped Spheres – Rankers Physics
Topic: Gravitation
Subtopic: Acceleration Due to Gravity and its variation

Acceleration of Dropped Spheres

An iron sphere and an aluminium sphere, both of same radius are dropped from the top of a tower \(100\text{ m}\) high. At a height \(40\text{ m}\) above the ground, both of them will have same:
momentum
kinetic energy
potential energy
acceleration

Solution:

In the absence of air resistance, all falling bodies have the same acceleration due to gravity \(g\) independent of their mass. Since their masses are different due to different densities, other quantities will differ.

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