What exactly is meant by a free falling object?

Answer 1

Free falling bodies are bodies that the only force acting upon them is gravity.
A Free falling body is that which falls only under the action of gravity and no external force is applied on the body for its vertical motion.

for eg:fruit falling from a tree.......

Answer 2

A free falling object is an object that is falling solely under the influence of gravity, with no other forces acting upon it. This means that the only force acting on the object is its weight, causing it to accelerate downward at a constant rate of 9.8 m/s^2 near the surface of the Earth.

Answer 3

You might of heard Galileo Galilei's dropping objects from the leaning tower of Pisa in order to prove that all objects fall at the same rate, whatever their mass. Galileo was the first one to apply mathematics for physics analysis in that regard or a simple type of motion what we call today uniform acceleration or constant acceleration. Then he Galileo formulated the equation for a falling body or an object moving in uniform acceleration: d=1/2gt2.

Answer 4

principle of freely falling bodies is if we take two substances in which 1st substance is less than150gram(say50gms) and 2nd substance is of 1 kg in this case if we drop these substances 1 kg substancewill reach the ground first and in the 2nd case take two substances which one substance is more than400gms(700gms) and other substance is of 1kg in this case if we drop these substances both will reach the ground simultaneously at the same time the freely falling bodies are bodies in which the acceleration is constant during free fall and during freefall the weight of the body is zero and when the object reaches the ground the weight of body should be constant as before the free fall.

Answer 5

As the body falls due to gravitational force exerted by the earth on it there should not be any other force such air frictional force, electromagnetic force etc., Such a fall is known to be free falling.

Answer 6

A free falling body appears to be weightless because gravity is the only force acting on it. There is no ground or floor to stop the fall so the body "floats" in the air as if weightless. A space ship in orbit is falling around the earth, and everything inside it is falling at the same speed, so to the astronauts inside the ship it feels as if there is no gravity.

However, really gravity exists no matter where in space, so it is not TECHNICALLY possible to be weightless, which is why the term free falling is used.

Answer 7

"Free fall" is the situation where the only forceon an object is the force of gravity..

Answer 8

falling due to gravity without any drag or other forces.

Answer 9

Any mass that is dropped from a z-distance from the surface which has a gravity.

Answer 10

motion due to the gravity.