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"when you jump, you exert a force on yourself that causes you to accelerate into the air. what is wrong with this statement, and what is the correct explanation of your ability to jump?"
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"when you jump, you exert a force on yourself that causes you to accelerate into the air. what is wrong with this statement, and what is the correct explanation of your ability to jump?"

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When an object falls the gravitational field of the earth exerts a force called the "gravitational force". This force is exerted on the body due to gravity, it is not the body that exerts a force on itself.

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