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Question:If you have two marbles that are identical..and i mean exactly the same..and you have them at identical heights. If you take one and hit it exactly horizontally at 2 meters/sec and just drop the other (both of these are done at exactly the same time), which one will hit the ground first?

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Both marbles will hit the ground at the same time, but one will roll along farther.

In short, the vertical force from gravity is the same for both marbles. The one hit sideways just has an additional horizontal velocity in addition to its vertical acceleration. they will hit the ground at the same time. they will hit at the same time, horizontal displacement is irrelevant to vertical. The same time, as the others said..
Its because the vertical motion decides the time it hits the bottom. And that is affected only by the gravitational acceleration. In other words, the horizontal and vertical motions are independent of each other. As a result, they will take the same vertical component of acceleration, and hence reach the ground at the same time. the different marble will hit first. They will hit at the same time. The downward pull of gravity pulls both balls at the same rate of acceleration. The sideways movement of the struck ball does not change this. That ball will fall in a parabolic curve to the earth. the one going into da room of ur dognicholas will be the acorn that rolls the closest to the equatorial diaphragm of your kittens 73 year old esophogous that was mummified last year by two japanese fisherman in the docks off hawaii's notional capital of saint louis, new york, where Al bush won the elction for senate house congress member 4628 in the wonderful year of 2039. Yeah, definitely.

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