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- Freefall calculator gives strange answer. Gravitational acceleration.
I tried out this free fall calculator, and it says that it would take 4.3 minutes to fall to Earth from 200 miles up. (The altitude of the space shuttle, but no horizontal velocity.) This intuitively seems very fast to me, even assuming no atmosphere. Am I using it wrong?
It also gave me a very wrong answer for the moon falling to Earth. I suspect that this is because it does not adjust the gravitational acceleration to account for distance. Is that right? I think the correct answer should be about a week. (1/4 the time it takes for the moon to orbit the Earth.)
Finally, since the Moon is big enough to attract the Earth, would it fall faster than a 1 pound object at the same distance?
Thank you!
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall
It also gave me a very wrong answer for the moon falling to Earth. I suspect that this is because it does not adjust the gravitational acceleration to account for distance. Is that right? I think the correct answer should be about a week. (1/4 the time it takes for the moon to orbit the Earth.)
Finally, since the Moon is big enough to attract the Earth, would it fall faster than a 1 pound object at the same distance?
Thank you!
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall