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    An object is in free fall if the only force acting on it is gravity. All freely falling objects near the Earth's surface accelerate at approximately 9.81 m/s2 downward, regardless of their mass or initial velocity. Air resistance is ignored in free fall problems. Galileo showed that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate in the absence of air resistance, contradicting Aristotle. Kinematic equations can be used to solve free fall problems by setting the initial velocity (vi) to 0 and using an acceleration (a) of -9.81 m/s2.

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    Free Fall

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    An object is in free fall if the only force acting on it is gravity. All freely falling objects near the Earth's surface accelerate at approximately 9.81 m/s2 downward, regardless of their mass or initial velocity. Air resistance is ignored in free fall problems. Galileo showed that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate in the absence of air resistance, contradicting Aristotle. Kinematic equations can be used to solve free fall problems by setting the initial velocity (vi) to 0 and using an acceleration (a) of -9.81 m/s2.

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    An object is in free fall if the only force acting on it is gravity. All freely falling objects near the Earth's surface accelerate at approximately 9.81 m/s2 downward, regardless of their mass or initial velocity. Air resistance is ignored in free fall problems. Galileo showed that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate in the absence of air resistance, contradicting Aristotle. Kinematic equations can be used to solve free fall problems by setting the initial velocity (vi) to 0 and using an acceleration (a) of -9.81 m/s2.

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    Free Fall

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    Felix Robert Valenzuela
    An object is in free fall if the only force acting on it is gravity. All freely falling objects near the Earth's surface accelerate at approximately 9.81 m/s2 downward, regardless of their mass or initial velocity. Air resistance is ignored in free fall problems. Galileo showed that heavy and light objects fall at the same rate in the absence of air resistance, contradicting Aristotle. Kinematic equations can be used to solve free fall problems by setting the initial velocity (vi) to 0 and using an acceleration (a) of -9.81 m/s2.

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    An object that the

    only force acting on Mr. P

    it is gravity
    Gravity accelerates all objects down regardless if they are going
    up, going down, stopped, or going sideways. An object that the
    only force acting on it is gravity is in
    Free Fall.
    An object is in free fall if the only force acting on it is gravity,
    doesn’t happen though, near surface of earth there is air resistance!
    An airplane can simulate free fall
    by flying in a parabolic path
    All freely falling objects
    accelerate at 9.81 m/s2 near the
    surface of the earth

    a  9.81 m / s 2

    a  g
    All are pulled down at the same
    rate regardless of their mass and
    direction of motion.
    ( Ignoring air resistance )
    Which falls faster without
    air resistance?

    Without air resistance With air resistance


    Galileo dropped a
    cannonball and a musket ball
    simultaneously from a tower, and
    observed that they both hit the
    ground at the same time. This
    contradicted Aristotle's long-
    accepted idea that heavier
    objects fell faster.

    http://faculty.rmwc.edu/tmichalik/movies/tree.mpeg
    To solve free fall
    problems use the
    kinematic equations and:
    1. a = -9.8 m/s2
    2. Dropped let vi =0
    3. At top let vf =0

    1. vf = vi + at
    2. vf 2 = vi 2 + 2ad
    3. d = vi t + 1
    2 at 2
    4. d = 1
    2 (vf + vi ) t
    All of the following are in free fall, on the way
    down, up, or sideways
    Note the lengths of the velocity and acceleration vectors at different
    times. (The upward and downward paths of the ball are horizontally
    Displaced for illustration purposes.)
    For an object thrown straight up at 20 m/s
    link

    20 m/s
    Velocity vs. Time Acceleration vs. Time

    -20 m/s
    -9.81 m/s2

    -30 m/s
    The slope of a velocity vs time
    graph for an object in free fall
    near the surface of the earth
    will always be -9.81 m/s2.
    EXAMPLE:
    An apple falls from rest from a tree and
    takes 1.5 seconds to reach the floor:
    a) How high up did it fall from?
    b) What is its velocity just before it hits the ground?

    a = - 9.81 m/s2
    A flea can jump to a vertical height of 4cm, find:
    a. The initial velocity the pest leaves the ground
    b. The time the flea takes to reach its maximum height

    v f 2  vi 2  2ad
    0  vi 2  2(9.8m / s 2 )(.04m)
    vi  .88m / s

    v f  vi  at
    0  .88m / s  (9.8m / s 2 )t
    t  .09sec
    "A ball is thrown straight upward from the top of a cliff with an
    initial velocity of 15 m/sec. Assuming the ball just misses the edge
    of the cliff on its way down, how fast is it going just before it hits the
    ground which is 35 m below the ball's starting point?"

    35 m

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