Free Fallin'

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#8 - Neglecting air friction, all bodies accelerate at a rate of _____

 

 

 

9.8 m/s2

 

 

 

Galileo (1564 - 1642)


Credit: Original portrait by
Justus Sustermans painted in 1636.

 

 

 

 

 

Effect of Mass On Free Fall
Rutgers U.

 

 

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St. Mary's H.S. Physics

 

 

Gravity/Moon - Feather & Hammer
NASA

 

 

Ex) An object thrown upward at
+40 m/s

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# 9 - The acceleration due to gravity is constant on all planets

 

Label the slope pictured above
that could be Jupiter? Moon?

 

 

 

 Top Line: Jupiter

Bottom Line: Moon 

 

 

 

 

What does the d vs t plot for
free fall look like?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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