Here if we assume that there is no air friction on both balls then we can say
now the acceleration is given as
so here both the balls will have same acceleration irrespective of size and mass
so we can say that to find out the time of fall of ball we can use
now from above equation we can say that time taken to hit the ground will be same for both balls and it is irrespective of its mass and size
Answer:
Both balls hit the ground at the same time
Explanation:
Adam drops the ball from rest, so the ball just "<em>falls</em>" in vertical direction, being gravity its only acceleration, for cinematic movements we use that:
In this case we have that gravity is negative, and as Adam drops the ball,
Bob throws the ball horizontally, so the movement will be a <em>parabola</em>, we can divide into horizontal direction, and vertical direction.
But we only need to analize the vertical movement, in wich again the only acceleration is gravity, and compare it with Adam's ball. Again we have that gravity is negative, and as the initial throw is horizontal,
Finally, we have that
where
both for Adam's vertical drop, and for Bob's vertical component of the parabolic throw.
Now, if we put (the origin of the vertical coordinate), we get for both cases that
where we can clear the value for the time t, of the fall, wich will be the same in both cases.
Hence, both balls hit the ground at the same time.