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Originally Posted by JohnKSa
Therefore a bullet would fall faster than a hailstone of the same size.
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<nitpick>It would fall
harder, not necessarily faster. Acceleration by gravity is about 9.8 m/s/s no matter how much or how little you weigh, up until you get near terminal velocity. F=MA; the greater force is due to the greater weight.</nitpick>
Sorry, my last girlfriend was a physics major and I picked up some of her habits. I suspect you knew all of this, given the rest of your post, but it's a stiff reflex.