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DERIVE THE EQUATION OF MOTION FOR FREELY FALLING BODY?

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Answer A free fall occurs for an object only due to free fall acceleration and hence its parameters of motion are independent of its mass, when you ignore the air resistance. Normally, the air resistance is very low except in cases of objects with large areas and hence it is a safe bet to ignore that. But at the same time one must realize that the force acquired by an object under free fall is certainly proportional to the mass of the object. In fact such force of the object is nothing but the Net Weight of the object and also its momentum as it hits the ground (mass times the final velocity) depends on the mass of the objectThe equations of motions applicable to free falls are called Free Fall Equations or Free Fall Formulas. These equations can be derived from first principles.Let us derive the three important free fall equations considering the free fall without air resistance. Let us assume v is the final velocity, h is the height and t is the time related to a free fall. Obviously the initial velocity for a free fall is 0 and the acceleration in this case is g. The final velocity is generally defined as the sum of the initial velocity and the product of acceleration and time.therefore , for a free fall v=0+gt .....................1the second free fall equation is derived as follows the distance covered by an object in any motion is the product of average velocity and time therefore ,for a free fall h=12(v+0)t =12gt×th=12gt2 .........................2 t from these two equations to arrive at the third free fall equationh=12gt2 or 12gt2 =h12g2t2 =gh by using first equation12v2=ghv2=2gh

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