Multiple Choice
A feather and a boulder will have equal accelerations when falling under the influence of gravity in a vacuum because
A) the ratio of the object's weight to its mass is the same.
B) gravity does not act in a vacuum.
C) the gravitational force on each object is the same.
D) all gravitational accelerations everywhere are equal.
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