From the Physics Assignment Worksheet #1 there was a a problem that stated that gravity accelerates objects at about 10 meters per second squared. This got me thinking about a lot of different scenarios. How could this unseen force actually increase objects ability to accelerate. I've see many videos where they throw different things with different weights off a building and see which one falls first. But I never imagined the fact that they are getting faster as they drop due to gravity, I always thought it was the weight. It intrigued me so I decided to test it out and I tried dropping a glass cup from different heights. I started off with 1 foot to see if it would crack and worked my way to where i was standing on chair dropping the glass cup. It shocked me to see the cup actually increased its speed as it dropped. As you can see in my video when it is first dropped you can still see the cup. But around halfway it begins to be blurred, in a sense that the speed had picked up and can no longer be a visible object because my camera is not a super genius and cant focus it.
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