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Does our head experience smaller gravitational acceleration than our feet?

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The gravitational acceleration decreases with altitude.

The acceleration due to gravity does not depend on the mass of the object falling, but the force it feels, and thus the object's weight, does.One is that the speed at which an object falls does not depend on its mass.

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