If a horse and a man jumped off a cliff at the same time, which would land first?

Question

If a horse and a man jumped off a cliff at the same time, which would land first?

Answer 1

It depends on how high the cliff is and how big the man and horse are.  On a short cliff they will land at the same time since neither has time to reach terminal velocity and wind resistance won't be major.  

From a very high cliff an average man will reach terminal velocity sooner than an average horse. The man has a larger surface area to weight ratio. The horse would keep accelerating to a higher terminal velocity.

Answer 2

both will have same acceleration so they should land at the same time but this not ideal condition so mass will play a rle so the one with more mass will land 1st

Answer 3

Same time.  like the dood above me said

Weight is unrelated to the speed of falling.

Everything on earth falls towards it is at 9.8meters per second squared. (thanks for that newton)

true air resistance can be a factor especially if it is a very very tall cliff. if the man is lying flat horizontal to the ground as he falls the horse may hit first because the friction with air will slow the horse down less because it has higher inertia.  If the person dives head first though.  he will likely hit first.

What your teacher is probably looking for is BOTH fall at rame rate due to gravity.  Both accelerating at 9.8 meters per second^2

Answer 4

the man is most likely to land first.

Answer 5

the horse would land first due to its weight!!!!

Answer 6

ideally , since they jump at the same time, they fall at the same time and at the same rate(force of gravity)  so they should both land at the same time but if you don't ignore air resistance, the man will land first because there is less air resistance due to his cross sectional area compared to the horse. Just because the horse weighs more doesn't mean it will land first , remember Galileo's experiment. He dropped two objects with the same mass and they landed at the same time regardless one being heavier than the other.

Answer 7

This would be one of the few times that a man could edge out a horse in a straight out race, but as mentioned above, the horse would probably have enough sense to watch the man jump.

Answer 8

the man. the horse would have more sense than to jump off.

Answer 9

Both the horse and man land at same time.To test this just take a big stone and a small stone and just drop both at the same time.The you will see that both the stones land at same time due to the acceleration produced due to gravity.

Answer 10

the cliff x you mucky ***** x

Answer 11

The man would most likely land first because he would have less wind resistance.  

Objects do not fall at the same rate as one another on earth - because of the atmosphere.  

Drop a sheet of paper and a paper clip at the same time and the paper clip will hit first - because wind resistance keeps the paper from falling as quickly.  The same thing will happen between the human and the horse - the one with less aerodynamic drag will hit the ground first.

Answer 12

Weigh has nothing to do with it.

Objects will fall at the same rate regardless of their weight because the force of gravity acting on them is the same. It's wind resistance that will cause the man to hit the ground first.

Answer 13

Both would land at the same time. This was proven by Gallelio's experiment. He dropped two things of different weights down a building, and both fell at the same time.

Answer 14

ideally  at  the  same  time  .  but  since  the  hrse  weighs  much  more    i   tjink  the  hrse will  land  1st

Answer 15

if if a horse and a man jumped off a cliff at the same time,both of them would reach the ground at the same time,because during a free fall they would have the same acceleration(9.8m/s2)