Why Acceleration Due To Gravity Does Not Depend On Mass

Gravity is a force which is found between two bodies which have mass. Due to this force two bodies are attracted towards each other and they start moving towards each other with an acceleration. Earth gravity is the same gravitational force which keeps us attached to earth.

Gravitational Acceleration

As we drop something from the height so it starts falling towards earth and its velocity starts increasing this change in velocity is called gravitational acceleration because acceleration is dependent on velocity. Now if you drop hard bowling ball or feather in a vacuum they will drop on earth at the same time because gravitational acceleration is independent of mass and that's is confusing for someone who does not know the complete science.

Newton's Law of Gravity

According to newton's law the force between two bodies depends on mass so why not acceleration depends on mass so by this law heavy body must accelerate quickly towards the earth but that's not the case. We know by Newton's 2nd law of motion that acceleration is inversely proportional to mass so this explains that heavy body will resist the heavy force with equal amount and this will cancel the effect of more force.

Conclusion

So to understand why gravity does not depend on mass we have to consider both laws of newton at the same time one is gravitational law and second is law of motion. Actually First law is also necessary to understand the result that every thing living or non-living resist change in its state of motion or rest so however there will be more force applied on heavy bodies but this will be cancelled because they will present more resistant.