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What is free-fall acceleration near earth's surface
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What is free-fall acceleration near earth's surface

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Near Earth's surface, the distance between the object that is falling and the center of Earth does not change very much. Thus, the force given by the law of universal gravitation depends only on the mass of the object that is falling.
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free fall is when the only force acting on an object is gravity
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