Falling (physics) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-07

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00:01:42 1 History
00:03:54 2 Examples
00:07:54 3 Free fall in Newtonian mechanics
00:08:05 3.1 Uniform gravitational field without air resistance
00:10:57 3.2 Uniform gravitational field with air resistance
00:16:09 3.3 Inverse-square law gravitational field
00:18:59 4 Free fall in general relativity
00:24:46 5 Record free fall parachute jumps
00:26:06 6 Surviving falls
00:31:04 7 See also
00:37:30 8 References



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In Newtonian physics, 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 would not normally be considered to be falling, but if it is subject to the force of gravity only, it is said to be in free fall. The moon is thus in free fall.
In a roughly uniform gravitational field, in the absence of any other forces, gravitation acts on each part of the body roughly equally, which results in the sensation of weightlessness, a condition that also occurs when the gravitational field is weak (such as when far away from any source of gravity).
The term "free fall" is often used more loosely than in the strict sense defined above. Thus, falling through an atmosphere without a deployed parachute, or lifting device, is also often referred to as free fall. The aerodynamic drag forces in such situations prevent them from producing full weightlessness, and thus a skydiver's "free fall" after reaching terminal velocity produces the sensation of the body's weight being supported on a cushion of air.