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Be picky and correct your friend who says, “In free fall, air resistance is more effective in slowing a feather than a coin.”
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In 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 and it moves along a geodesic. Show more…
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