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If a stone of mass 50 kg and another of mass 5 kg fall down simultanéously. from the top of a five-storey building, which one will reach the ground first?

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They will reach the .ground at the same time. When an object is dropped from some height, its velocity increases at a constant rate. In other words, when an object is dropped : from some height, .a uniform acceleration produced in it by GRAVITATIONal pull of the earth and this acceleration does not depend on the mass of the falling body.
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