never exceeded one-tenth of a pulse beat." In 1589-1592, Galileo wrote De Motu Antiquiora, an unpublished manuscript on the motion of falling bodies.

Examples

Examples of objects in free fall include:
* A spacecraft (in space) with propulsion off (e.g. in a continuous orbit, or on a suborbital trajectory (ballistics) going up for some minutes, and then down).
* An object dropped at the top of a drop tube.

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