Mission NL10: Free Fall Acceleration

Mission NL10 pertains to concepts associated with free fall acceleration. The mission consists of 40 questions organized into 10 Question Groups. You must answer one question from each Question Group to complete the mission. The learning outcomes for this mission are ...
 

Learning Outcomes

• The student should be able to state the definition of free fall and identify common characteristics of free-falling objects.
• The student should be able to describe the effect of mass upon a free-falling object and to calculate the speed and displacement of free-falling objects.

 

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Getting Help

If you are not familiar with this topic, then you should first learn about the topic using our written Tutorial or our Video Tutorial:
 

The Physics Classroom, Newton's Laws Unit, Lesson 3, Part e

• What does free-fallingmean?
• What is meant by terminal velocity?
• What would the free-body diagram for a free-falling object look like?
• Does air resistance act upon a free-falling object?
• What effect does mass have upon the free-fall acceleration value?
• What does the symbol gstand for?
• Why does a massive rock and a less massive rock free fall at the same rate?
• How does one determine the net force upon a free-falling object?
• How does one determine the speed of a free-falling object after falling for some interval of time?
• How does one determine the distance which a free-falling object has fallen after some interval of time?

 

Video Tutorials:

Free Fall and Newton's Second Law

  

 

 

Question-Specific Help

Each Question Group has its own Help page with information specific to the question. You can access the Help page from within the mission by tapping on the Help Me! icon (textbook). For your convenience, links to those pages are provided below: