Physics GCSE
Free-fall acceleration
What Free-fall acceleration means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Free-fall acceleration
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Reference: OCR
A dropped object accelerates at about 10 m/s² due to gravity, and this is the benchmark for sanity-checking answers.
Topics that use Free-fall acceleration
- Physics on the move (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- braking distance
- Everyday transport speeds
- Experimental method
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- Order-of-magnitude estimation
- Rate equations and unit consistency
- Rate of change of velocity
- reaction time
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