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Newton's 2nd law says that when a larger force is applied to anobject of mass m, the object will experience a larger acceleration.At the same time, you've learned that all objects experience thesame acceleration in a free fall, even if their weights (the forcesof gravity acting on them) are different. That sounds like acontradiction: on one hand, from the Newton's 2nd law, a largerforce means larger acceleration, on the other hand when applied tomotion under gravity - a larger weight (force) means the sameacceleration for all objects. How do you reconcile thesestatements? Why isn't it a contradiction? Does gravity violate theNewton's second law or is there another explanation. Be as thoroughand clear in your explanation as possible.

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