If you drop something, it Ms. The force acting on it is

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Gravity is the force that pulls things down whenever they are dropped. It is said that Isaac Newton "discovered" the concept of gravity as an identifiable force while sitting under an apple tree and the obvious happened. Gravity is created by the mass of the earth. The pull of gravity is much less (about one-sixth) on the moon than on earth.

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