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What is the acceleration of free fall?


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  1. The movement of an object only due to its gravity is called a free fall.
  2. The movement of the free-falling body can be studied using Newton's second law.
  3. Newton's second law says that the force is obtained by multiplying acceleration and the mass.
  4. The acceleration experienced by a freely falling body due to the gravitational effect of the earth alone is known as free-fall acceleration. It's also known as gravitational acceleration.
  5. On Earth, it has a value of g=9.8m/s.
  6. The acceleration of a body falling freely in a vacuum at the earth's surface in the gravitational field of the earth: the standard value is 9.806 65 meters per second per second (32.174 feet per second per second).
  7. The symbol of acceleration due to gravity is “g”.

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