Question

What is the acceleration due to gravity?

Answer 1

When the object falls towards the earth due to the earth’s gravitational force, it something we call as free fall of the object. So during the free fall, the only force acting on the object is the gravitational force of the earth. The acceleration due to gravity is the acceleration produced in the freely falling body due to the influence of the gravitational pull of the earth.

The acceleration which is gained by an object because of the gravitational force is called its acceleration due to gravity. Its SI unit is m/s². Acceleration due to gravity is a vector, which means it has both a magnitude and a direction. The acceleration due to gravity at the surface of Earth is represented as g. It has a standard value defined as 9.8 m/s².