published by
the Science and Technology Facilities Council
This video shows how steel balls and a feather fall in air and in a good vacuum. The motion is well illuminated and captured clearly in the video, and arrows help make clear the locations of the objects as they fall. A physicist explains what is happening.
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Title = {Feather Drop},
Publisher = {Science and Technology Facilities Council},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {1 May 2025},
Month = {November 1, 2012},
Year = {2012}
}
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