REACTION PAPER ABOUT FREE FALL PHYSICS
One of the major topics discussed in physics is the study of Free Fall. In deliberation
of this topic, I learned that any object that is being acted upon only by the force of gravity is
said to be in a state of free fall. Using complementary videos and textbook that uploaded by
our Prof, I began to eager to learn from this topic.
The standard acceleration of free-falling objects on earth due to gravity is equal to 9.8
m/s². In my understanding on free fall, speed is scalar quantity and always positive while
velocity can be positive or negative depend on what direction of an object are going. And when
the object going to the right the velocity is positive and when an object going to the left the
velocity is negative but in the concept of free fall it deals motion in y direction that's why when
an object goes up the velocity is positive and when it goes down the velocity is negative. By
observing attentively on those complementary videos, they explained well about the different
formula that I need to know. I learned that when an object moving at constant speed the only
equation to be used is d=vt and when it's moving in constant acceleration there are only four
equations to be used.
there is a part in the video that I don't understand because the explanation is too fast,
but throughout my discovery of free fall, it is good to study free fall because we discover its
relation to the earth, and we hone our thinking through the equations taught in the
complementary references.
