If their is no air resistance, it will go faster and faster, at a rate of 9.8 (meters / second) / second.
The speed of an object in free fall near the earth's surface is always 9.8 meters (32.2 feet) per second morethan it was one second earlier.
The earth. Because it is in orbit around the sun, the earth is technically in free-fall. The moon is in free-fall around the earth for the same reason. A better way to think of it might be this: The sun is pulling on the earth, pulling earth straight into the sun. The earth is moving perpendicular to the direction of that pull at exactly the speed needed to stay about 93 million miles away from the sun. Earth ----------->Pull-----> SUN | | V Direction of travel Because of this, earth will fall in an ellipse around the sun unless some other force acts on earth. Hence, Earth is in free-fall.
No. When an object is in free fall it has a downward force (it's mass) and an opposite, upward force of air resistance.
On Earth, a free-falling object has an acceleration of 9.8 meters per second2.
The center of the Earth.
The object in free fall is actually accelerating toward the earth, this acceleration is caused by gravity. So, yes gravity will be acting on a falling object and any object near the earth. It might help you to think of the same object on the other side of the earth falling up to remind you that it is the earth pulling on everything around it toward the centre. The phrase "free fall" is really misleading imoh.
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free fall
There is no definite speed for free falling. If an object is released somewhere above the earth, the speed is changing every single moment. It is never the same speed it was before at any time; only until an object releases terminal velocity where it is moving at a constant speed. This is different for every object. The acceleration due to the gravity of the earth is 32 feet/second^2. This means that for every second that passes, an object is moving 32 feet/second faster than it was the second before.
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