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What is the free-fall acceleration at the surface of the moon?

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The acceleration due to gravity is 1.62m/s^2, this is because the moons gravity is 1/6th that of Earth's (9.81m/s^2) hope this helps! you could also use Newton's law of gravity, F=GM/R^2 where g is the universal gravitational constant, M= mass of the object and R=radius. There should be a neg sign in front of the equation since objects in free fall fall downwards from the given object. Hope this Helps........

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