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The acceleration due to gravity alone on Earth
is about 9.81 meters per second-squared.
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All objects change velocity as they move toward earth at a rate of 9.8 ms2 due to which factor of gravity?
acceleration
What effect does gravity have on the velocity of falling objects?
Gravity exerts a force on the object, causing it to accelerate since the net force on the object is down. Neglecting friction such as air resistance, all small bodies accelerate in a gravitational field at the same rate relative to the center of mass. This rate is 9.80665 m/s2.
Why do feather and rock hit the ground at the same time in vacuum?
Basically, gravity accelerates both at the same rate.
Do objects in Earth's orbit appear to be weightless because they are in free fall?
Yes, exactly. A useful way to think of an object in orbit is that it is falling towards Earth much like anything else but, because of its velocity and distance from earth, it keeps missing the ground. This seems slightly contradictory -- a weightless object under the pull of gravity -- but it isn't, really. Suppose you're in an elevator that's had its cables cut. (Heaven, forefend!). Gravity accelerates you and the elevator Earthward at exactly the same rate, so you feel like you're floating relative to the elevator, but you and the elevator are just falling at the same rate.
What causes acceleration of an object?
An unequal applied force. That's is it. For example, a force (measured in Newtons(N)) applied to one side of an object will equal that objects mass (M) multiplied by its acceleration(a) Thus F(N)=M*a
If gravity accelerates all objects towards Earth at a rate of 9.8 ms and sup2 why don't all objects fall at the same rate?
Air resistance. Initial conditions.
How does an objects mass affect how it accelerates to earth?
It doesn't. Close to Earth's surface, any object will accelerate towards the center of the Earth at a rate of about 9.8 meters/second squared, regardless of the object's mass.
Gravity causes all objects to accelerate toward and earth at a rate of?
9.8 meters per second squared.
Why doesn't the Sun's gravity pull on objects on earth?
It does. Earth, along with everything on it is pulled toward the sun by gravity. However since they are all pulled in the same direction at the same rate, everything stays on Earth.
All objects change velocity as they move toward earth at a rate of 9.8 ms2 due to which factor of gravity?
acceleration
All objects change velocity as they move toward earth at a rate of 9.8 m/s2 due to which factor of gravity?
acceleration
All objects change velocity as they move toward earth at a rate of 9.8 m/s2 due to which factor of gravity?
acceleration
What effect does gravity have on the velocity of falling objects?
Gravity exerts a force on the object, causing it to accelerate since the net force on the object is down. Neglecting friction such as air resistance, all small bodies accelerate in a gravitational field at the same rate relative to the center of mass. This rate is 9.80665 m/s2.
Why do feather and rock hit the ground at the same time in vacuum?
Basically, gravity accelerates both at the same rate.
What is gravity measured in?
In Newtons, which are Kilogram meters per second, or Km/s2. It is measured as a force. It is also common to refer to the acceleration of gravity or "g" and describe it merely as an acceleration, since the gravity of an object accelerates all other objects at the same rate (if the distances involved are about the same). 'g' is almost always defined by earth's gravitational acceleration at it's surface, of 9.8KG/s2, and is used as the standard unit.
Does gravity attract all objects at the same rate?
True
How do earth and other objects move in space?
The movement of the planets (inertia) moves them perpendicular to the sun at about the same rate that the gravity from the sun pulls the planets in. The gravity of the sun is a little stronger as the earth is slowly, but continuously getting closer to the sun.
