why?
Well if you want to be really, really technical, it would be the tennis ball. The basket ball has a much greater surface area, so more air resistance is acting on it. But because they are so close to one another, you would find them to land at the same time.
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If it were in a vacuum, they would land at exactly the same time----there's no air resistance. A piece of paper and a bowling ball would land at the same time.
Gravity affects all objects at the same rate.
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Baseball.
The air resistance for a baseball and a tennis ball are about the same but the baseball has more mass. Therefore the air resistance slows it down less
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tennisball n baseball have the same surface area, therefore tennisball's surface area= baseball's surface area. so u only have 2 take into account the masses.
mass of baseball > mass of tennisball
since the constant of gravity is the same, the baseball will hit the ground first
It depends on from how far you drop and whether or not you neglect air resistance. If you neglect air resistance, they both drop at the same time because acceleration due to gravity is 10m/s*2 for all objects.
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If you drop a baseball and a tennis ball at the exact same time which will hit the ground first?