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gravitational acceleration is the acceleration due to the force of gravity (your weight).

Newton's second law is F = ma, as this can be rewritten for Weight (the gravitational force) as W = mg where g is the gravitational acceleration.

On Earth g = 9.81 m/s/s.

If you traveled to a different planet it would change as the force of gravity would be different thus the gravitational acceleration would be different (on the moon it is 1.6 m/s/s on mars 4 m/s/s on Jupiter 25 m/s/s)

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