HOW DOES GRAVITY EFFECT ACCELERATION??
If a body is free to fall, gravity accelerates it at a constant rate.
To understand how gravity affects acceleration, we need to consider Newton's second law of motion. The law states that the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. Mathematically, this can be expressed as F = ma, where F is the net force, m is the mass, and a is the acceleration.
Now, when an object is in free fall, it means that the only force acting on it is gravity. In every system, there is a force of gravity pulling objects toward the center of the Earth. The force of gravity is given by the equation F = mg, where m is the mass of the object and g is the acceleration due to gravity (approximately 9.8 m/s^2 on the surface of the Earth).
Since the force of gravity is the only force acting on the object in free fall, it becomes the net force. Therefore, we can equate the force of gravity (mg) to the net force (F) in the equation F = ma. This gives us mg = ma.
By rearranging the equation, we find that the acceleration of the object (a) is equal to the force of gravity (g) divided by the mass of the object (m). Thus, a = g/m.
From this equation, we can see that acceleration due to gravity is independent of the mass of the object. In other words, the acceleration experienced by any freely falling object is solely determined by the acceleration due to gravity.