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The weight of a body will be zero during free fall. Why? ​

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The apparent weight of a freely falling body is zero. When a body falls freely, it is falling with an acceleration =g. Thus the entire gravitational force acting on it is utilized in accelerating it and hence its weight is not felt.

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