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As its distance from the earths mass centre alters very little during the fall, the force between it and the earth essentially remains the same.

During the fall the earth and the apple accelerate toward each other.

acceleration = force / mass, so the earths acceleration is incredibly small and the distance moved also.

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When an apple falls there's only a few forces acting on that apple. The basic ones are gravity and air friction. The reaction force to the earth pulling the apple is the apple pulling the earth up with the SAME amount of force. The reaction force to air molecules hitting the apple is the apple exerting an equal and opposite force back on those air molecules.

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The original force is gravity. The reaction force is the force your hand exerts on the apple. Both are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction.

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What is the unbalanced force that affects the motion of a falling apple and the moon?

Newton knew that there was an unbalanced force acting on the moon and the falling apple through sheer logic. He realized that things only went down. The idea that what goes up must come down proved there was a scientific reason for this. He also realized there was a pressure or force in between objects that were standing still and whatever it was they were sitting on.The legend is that Newton made the connection between the two questions when he watched a falling apple. He knew that unbalanced forces are needed to change the motion of objects by changing the velocity of the objects. He concluded that an unbalanced force on the moon kept the moon moving circularly around Earth. Newton said that these two forces are actually the same force- a force that he called (gravity)

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