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What happens to the speed of an object that is dropped in free fall

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If it's not falling through air, water, smoke, or anything else,
and gravity is the only force on it, then its speed increases
at a constant rate ... 9.8 meters per second for every second
it falls. (That's the number on Earth. It's different in other places.)
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