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Since the time of Galileo’s famous experiments with freely falling bodies it has been known that all material bodies, at the same place on Earth, fall with the same acceleration when air resistance is disregarded. Through many experiments this has become a well documented experimental fact.
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Knudsen, J.M., Hjorth, P.G. (1995). Gravitational and Inertial Mass. In: Elements of Newtonian Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97599-8_3
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