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Free Fall

Free fall refers to any object falling solely due to the force of gravity. Free-falling objects do not encounter air resistance and accelerate downward at 9.8 m/s2 on Earth. This acceleration means the object's velocity increases by 9.8 m/s each second as it falls due to gravity alone changing its velocity over time.

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Free Fall

Free fall refers to any object falling solely due to the force of gravity. Free-falling objects do not encounter air resistance and accelerate downward at 9.8 m/s2 on Earth. This acceleration means the object's velocity increases by 9.8 m/s each second as it falls due to gravity alone changing its velocity over time.

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Free Fall

• object that is falling under the sole influence of gravity


• any object that is being acted upon only by the force of gravity

There are two important motion characteristics that are true of


free-falling objects:

1. Free-falling objects do not encounter air resistance.

2. All free-falling objects (on Earth) accelerate downwards at a


rate of 9.8 m/s/s (often approximated as 10 m/s/s for back-of-
the-envelope calculations)
Recall  that acceleration is the rate at which an object changes its
velocity.

It is the ratio of velocity change to time between any two points in


an object's path.

To accelerate at 9.8 m/s/s means to change the velocity by 9.8


m/s each second.
If the velocity and time for a free-falling object
being dropped from a position of rest were
tabulated, then one would note the following
pattern.

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