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Eddi Din [679]
3 years ago
6

What is free fall? Explain it in brief.​

Physics
1 answer:
xxTIMURxx [149]3 years ago
3 0
 · free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only forceacting 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.

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