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The motion of a freely falling body is a uniformly accelerated motion near the surface of the earth.


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Solution

The correct option is A

True


Acceleration due to gravity near the surface of Earth can be comfortably assumed to be constant because the radius of Earth is so large that the distance between the concerned object and the Earth can be taken constant throughout the trajectory of the object.


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