Question: When Apollo 1 5 astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon to demonstrate that in a vacuum all bodies fall

When Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon to demonstrate that in
a vacuum all bodies fall with the same (constant) acceleration, he dropped them from about 1.2 meters
above the lunar surface. The television footage of the event shows the hammer and the feather falling more
slowly than on Earth, where, in a vacuum, they would have taken only half a second to fall the 1.2 meters.
How long did it take the hammer and feather to fall 1.2 meters on the moon, if the moons gravitational
acceleration is80
13 that of earth?

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