does acceleration due to gravity depend on time?

Answer 1

Acceleration due to gravity is constant....unless the gravitating body's mass is changing with time. If a body becomes more massive or less massive, its gravitation will change.

Answer 2

Yes but only to a point. For example if you jump up you fall at a slower rate then say falling off the roof of your house. However, there is a maximum velocity that can be reached for a certain weight. The more weight added the faster you fall. But here again there is a limit past a certain weight "it" whatever it may happen to be can only go a certain speed.
Sorry getting side tracked. The more time you spend falling doesn't really matter if an object falls from 100 ft or 10,000 ft it will fall at the same speed. However, 1inch as opposed to 100 ft YES there is a difference.
It should be noted also that object in a vacuum no matter what there mass will fall at the same rate. Therefore if you drop a feather and a hammer in a vacuum they will hit the ground at the same time. It has to do with wind resistance. Check out the website if you want to know more.

Answer 3

It is completely dependent on time. The most obvious connection would be in the acceleration formula, a v∆/t, or a change in velocity divided by time. But now that distance is considered a change in space and is only possible during a change in time, space and time are now considered two vital parts of the same concept, now known as spacetime.

Now the kicker is that while acceleration is dependant on time, time is also dependent on acceleration. The more acceleration occurs, the more time for the accelerated object will speed up relative to outside observers.

Answer 4

Acceleration is independent of time, SPEED is dependent on time. In a vacuum, whether something has been falling for one second or 50 seconds, it will accelerate at 9.8m/sec^2 (on earth). The speed will be far different at one second compared to after 50 seconds.

With wind resistance, the acceleration WILL change and be dependent on time. After maybe 20 seconds or so, most objects on earth will be at max speed and stop accelerating.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Well it depends. A longer time frame means that the object has to drop for a longer distance, therefore it will have higher speed just before it hits the object attracting it. On the other hand an experiment where the distance is the same and the time changes hasnt been invented.....

Answer 6

"Acceleration due to gravity" is term used to specify the gravitational field of the earth on its surface (or close to it), in terms of the acceleration it would cause on any object.

Since the gravitational field of the earth does change with time, so does the acceleration due to gravity.

Answer 7

Acceleration is independent of time but the object's velocity depends on time.

Answer 8

Acceleration (a) =1/2mv^2 and v (velocity) is definitely a function of time so acceleration is a function of time as well. m=mass

Answer 9

When deaing with gravity, let's assume that you are talking about falling; an object with pick up pick up speed for only so long before it can't fall any faster. All objects fall at the same rate, regardless of what they are, the difference comes in when you factor in shape, wind resistance, and mass.

Answer 10

Acceleration in the Universe is not due to gravity, but due to the misterous dark matter. Gravity is the one who is resisting this acceleration. And, if not on time, what else do you think it depends of? ;-)