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A good answer depends on several things you haven't specified, such as the height from which the object falls and whether you wish to include the affects of air resistance.
In the simplest model of free fall motion, we assume the falling object falls from a height near the surface of the Earth. This allows us to assume the acceleration due to gravity has a constant value of 9.80 m/s2. We also ignore air resistance. In an introductory physics course we do this simply to avoid an added complication. Briefly, if we include air resistance the net force becomes non-constant which prevents us from using the kinematic equations to describe the object's motion.
With these assumptions, a falling object experiences an increase in speed of 9.80 m/s every second. Falling from rest, after one second the object's speed will be 9.80 m/s. After two seconds, its speed will be 19.6 m/s, and so on until the object hits the ground. It's important to notice that the object's mass does not into the model. Absent air resistance, all objects near the surface of the Earth fall with the same acceleration regardless of their mass. This is a property of the gravitational force. We would get the same result on the Moon for example, although the value of the acceleration would be less than it is on the Earth.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe object picks up speed until it reaches terminal velocity (top speed). This is effected by the mass of the object, the friction and the gravitational pull. Once it reaches terminal velocity, it carrys on falling at that speed until it hits earth. Hope I helped, 2000AD
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∙ 9y agoAs an object falls freely the velocity increases and therefore the kinetic energy increases also.
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∙ 9y agoAs an object falls freely the velocity increases and therefore the kinetic energy also increases.
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The object accelerates.
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No it falls on Earth
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Describe the action and reaction force pairs involved when an object falls toward Earth Ignore the effects of air resistance?
The actions and reactions that involved when a object falls toward earth is that it creates an impact on it plus creates an crater. The reaction is that it might cause a natural disaster that can destroy millions of homes.
Why does an object accalerate when it falls toward earth surafce?
Gravity speeds it up
The motion an object experiences when it falls toward the earth with no forces acting upward?
Free Fall
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Increases
What will happen to the kinetic energy of the object as it falls?
Increase.
What will happen when white light falls into an object?
It will be illuminated. Whatever else may happen depends on the substance the object is made from.
How are the objects around you affected by the mass of earth?
earth's gravitational force pulls anything toward the center of the earth. so that makes everything stay in place. While a dropped object falls to earth rather than moving together or towards you.
Besides reflection what can happen to light when it falls on an object?
It can be absorbed
What falls though space toward the Earth?
astroids or meteors
What happens as an object falls from earth?
the velocity of the object increases until it hits the ground
Why does object fall when it goes up?
An object falls back to Earth because of gravity.
