I know planes can turn forward motion into upward force, but would a sphere take longer to hit the ground if it was launched straight forward at high speed than it would if it was dropped straight down.
Edit: what about frisbees or throw playing cards? are they actually falling slower because they’re moving fast or are they just maintaining maximum air resistance?
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A bullet fired by a gun with barrel perfectly parallel to a flat ground surface ie 0 degree angle and a ball dropped from height, with both ball and gun at the same height, bullet exited barrel and ball dropped at the same moment ; both objects reach the ground at the same time.
Reason is that both are facing the identical vertical force that is gravity, which is irrespective of the mass of the body.
Here we assumed that there is no air thrust.
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