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An object falls when you let go of it because of the force of gravity pulling it towards the Earth. When you are holding the object, you are counteracting the force of gravity with your hand, but once you let go, there is no longer any force opposing gravity, so the object falls.

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What would happen to an object let go in space?

The object will float in the zero-gravity environment or will eventually be drawn in by a planet's gravity and pulled down into it's atmosphere, probably burning up unless the planet is wihout an atmosphere.


How can you demonstrate the force of gravity?

The force of gravity can be demonstrated by dropping an object from a height and observing it fall to the ground. Alternatively, one can use a pendulum to show the constant pull of gravity acting on the swinging object.


Will an object accelerate in free fall?

Free fall is the situation when the object's motion is influenced only by gravity.In that situation, the object continuously accelerates.Before we go getting into air resistance, terminal velocity, and all that stuff,it must be noted that falling through air is NOT free fall.


What makes an object free fall?

Because there are a pair of equal gravitational forces between every two masses, and they act along the line between the centers of the masses. The line between the center of the Earth and the center of you is the direction toward the ground, so that's where things fall toward when you let them go.


What is meant for free fall?

Technically, an object is in free fall when the only force acting on it is its own weight. Non-technically, people refer to objects falling through the atmosphere as being in free fall even though the force caused by the object's interaction with the atmosphere is working against its weight. Anything in orbit is in free fall, even though it can go for billions of years without ever "completing" its fall, due to its momentum.

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What would happen to an object let go in space?

The object will float in the zero-gravity environment or will eventually be drawn in by a planet's gravity and pulled down into it's atmosphere, probably burning up unless the planet is wihout an atmosphere.


How can you demonstrate the force of gravity?

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