Free fall
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title:
Free fall
text:
In classical mechanics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it. In the context of general relativity, where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature, a body in free fall has no force acting on it. An object in the technical sense of the term "free fall" may not necessarily be falling down in the usual sense of the term. An object moving upwards might not normally be considered to be falling, but if it is subject to only the force of gravity, it i
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Motion of a body subject only to gravity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_fall
date created:
2002-09-05T10:10:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T20:34:23Z
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