Acceleration Due To Gravity

Acceleration Due To Gravity

What is it?

Acceleration due to Gravity is the acceleration that acts on all objects that fall within the Earth's gravitational field. As an object falls, gravity pulls it to Earth at a rate of 9.81 meters per second per second. That is, for every second that an object falls, its speed increases by 9.81 meters per second.
(This holds true in the absence of air resistance at sea level)


Give me an example!
Sky divers experience the Acceleration due to Gravity as soon as they jump from the airplane. For an instant they have zero vertical speed, then gravity accelerates them toward the ground. Their speed increases at the rate of 9.81 meters per second for each second that they fall, until they open their parachute, increasing their drag and slowing their descent to Earth.