Why are objects that fall near earth’s surface rarely in free fall?

A33.1 g copper object is launched from a 1.5 m 30° steel incline positioned on the floor by being pulled up a string attached to a 50.0 g mass suspended vertically over a pulley. the object is projected towards a glass table where it lands when it is at the point along its trajectory with the lowest speed. it comes to a halt when it clears the opposite edge of the table. it then falls and lands on 9 physics texts each 5 cm thick that are stacked on the floor on the opposite side of the table. assume that the table does not have a ledge and the rectangular object experiences 0.05 n of air resistance as it falls towards the books. how far and how long did the object travel and how fast does it hit the books. assume that at the moment the copper object leaves the incline, the massless string and ideal pulley break off

We have a colorless transparent liquid. it looks like water. we seperated it into a solid and a liquid by evaporration and condention was this a chemichal or a physical seperation a. chemical seperation b. physical seperation

Who was the first scientist to measure speed as distance over time?