but when you ask questions the person still thinks that a heavy object ought to fall faster than a light one because they haven't really understand the concept on a deep level.
No, they think that a heavy object ought to fall faster than a light one because that's how it actually works for most familiar objects falling through air.
If you've just been telling without demonstrating, this is pure reliance on authority.
No, they think that a heavy object ought to fall faster than a light one because that's how it actually works for most familiar objects falling through air.
Empty water bottles don't exactly fall faster than full water bottles.
But my point isn't about whether you rely or authority or don't but on how people actually make decisions. There literature on phenomenological primitives in physics.
The one time we tested the theory of gravity experimentally in school I did not get numbers that the Newtonian formula predicted. At the same time I don't think thos...
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