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My friend and I had this question and after physics-fighting each other we came to a conclusion that the feather inside the elevator would not fly and it will stay in contact with the floor because they both have the same acceleration downwards and if we imagine that the feather was on a scale and initially has a mass of let's say 1 gram, it would point to zero when it's free-falling with the elevator .because the scale, elevator, and that feather are all free falling under the acceleration of the Earth and that mass has no effect whatsoever on the acceleration... BUT!
Would the results change if we take into consideration Newton's law of universal gravitation
Imagine that the elevator is heading towards the Earth but has a very large mass and it's free-falling (no other acceleration or any other forces, other than gravity that is) wouldn't it's large mass cause it to have larger gravitational force and thus have more acceleration than a feather inside it?
Would the results change if we take into consideration Newton's law of universal gravitation
Imagine that the elevator is heading towards the Earth but has a very large mass and it's free-falling (no other acceleration or any other forces, other than gravity that is) wouldn't it's large mass cause it to have larger gravitational force and thus have more acceleration than a feather inside it?