What Is Kinematic Equations For Free Fall?

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In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where its weight is the only force acting upon it. In the context of general relativity, where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature, a body in free fall has no force acting on it and it moves along a geodesic. The present article only concerns itself with free fall in the Newtonian domain. A free falling object is an object that is falling under the sole influence of gravity. Any object that is being acted upon only by the force of gravity is said to be in a state of free fall. There are two important motion characteristics that are true of free-falling objects: • Free-falling objects do not encounter air resistance. • All free-falling objects (on Earth) accelerate downwards …show more content…

In free fall motion, we can derive the equations using the Kinematic Equations for Constant Acceleration. In doing this, let us consider that freely falling objects moves in a vertical direction that is, along the y-axis. instead of using Δx, we will use Δy. Kinematic Equations for Free Fall The positive acceleration a is used to denote an increasing acceleration. In free fall motion, it is always influenced by the pull of gravity and so, we denote the acceleration as g. The value of g decreases with increasing altitude. At Earh's surface, the value of g is approximately 9.80 m/s2 assuming that AIR RESISTANCE is negligible. It's conventional to define "up" as the + y-direction and to use y as the position variable. In that case the acceleration is: a = -g = - 9.80

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