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(a) What do you understand by the term 'acceleration due to gravity of earth'?
(b) What is the usual value of the acceleration due to gravity of earth?
​(c) State the SI unit of acceleration due to gravity.

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(a) Due to gravitational forces, earth pulls other objects towards itself. The acceleration produced in a body due to the gravitational attraction of the earth is known as the acceleration due to gravity.

(b) The calculated value of acceleration due to gravity on earth is 9.8 m/s2.

(c) SI unit of acceleration due to gravity is the same as of the normal acceleration. i.e. m/s2.

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