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What condition must be satisfied for the acceleration of a falling object to be equal to the gravitational field?

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You would have to ignore any air friction or other frictional forces .

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For a non-relativistic limit, we should expect our usual intuition regarding the accelerating charges to hold, and a falling charge should radiate with an acceleration. On the other hand, in general relativity a falling charge simply follows a geodesic of the earth's curved space-time; it is not accelerating relative to freely falling frames, and so is not accelerating in a meaningful sense.

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