How is acceleration of falling objects affected by gravity?

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How is acceleration of falling objects affected by gravity?

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Answer 1 · 2014-10-03T13:16:14

In the absence of gravity or other forces, objects wouldn't accelerate. There would be no falling. In fact, you'd have a difficult time saying which direction was down.

Those semantics aside, objects near the earth accelerate at a rate of about 9.81 $m/s^2$ . If an object starts out not moving and is allowed to fall, one second later it will be moving at 9.81 $m/s$ . After two seconds it will be moving 19.62 $m/s$ .

The velocity of a falling object ( $v$ ) depends on the time it has been falling ( $t$ ), the acceleration of gravity ( $g$ ), and the velocity it had at time zero ( $v_0$ ).

$v = g*t + v_0$

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