Mapping free-fall styles of solid objects within fluids Date: October 11, 2016 Source: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Summary: James Clerk Maxwell conducted some of the first documented ...

James Clerk Maxwell conducted some of the first documented studies of free-falling objects during the mid-1800s, when the physicist analyzed the tumbling motion of a freely falling plate. But much ...

Near the Earth the rate is the acceleration of free fall, 10 m/s 2. Due to the Earth’s gravity, the speed of an object dropped from a height will increase at a rate of 10 m/s every second as it ...

Launched in 2016, the MICROSCOPE satellite was charged with hunting for deviations in the acceleration of free-falling objects. The instrument presented Einstein's theory of general relativity ...