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What is free fall of a body? |
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Answer» Free-fall, in mechanics, state of a BODY that moves freely in any manner in the presence of gravity. The planets, for example, are in free-fall in the GRAVITATIONAL field of the Sun. Newton's laws SHOW that a body in free-fall follows an orbit such that the SUM of the gravitational and inertial forces equals ZERO. |
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