Why is acceleration negative in a free fall?

2 answers:

6 0

Technically speaking altitude is measured from the ground up.
Therefore, say you're falling from 1000 metres, that number decreases till it reaches 0. Therefore, you're accelerating but towards the ground i.e. towards 0.

Therefore acceleration is negative because you're travelling at -x metres per second and accelerating at -x metres per second^2

murzikaleks [220]3 years ago

5 0

Only because when most people work with vertical motion, they call the upward direction positive. So falling objects have negative velocity and acceleration. But if you prefer to call the downward direction positive, you have every right to do that. Then the force of gravity on a falling object, as well as its velocity and acceleration, are all positive, and its negative altitude steadily grows until it hits the ground.

You might be interested in

Only about 50% of the solar energy directed toward Earth penetrates directly to the surface. Explain what happens to the rest of

Tresset [83]

Answer:

it is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere

Explanation:

In the case when approx 50% only of the solar energy would be directed towards earth and it would be penetrates directly to the surface so the rest or remaining of the radiation would be either absorbed or refected by the atmosphere

So as per the given situation the above represent the answer

hence, the same is to be considered and relevant

4 0

3 years ago

Read 2 more answers

HELP!!! I have no idea how to calculate this.

stiks02 [169]

$\mathfrak{\huge{\orange{\underline{\underline{AnSwEr:-}}}}}$