Gravity - Part 10

Let's look at the falling apple again, this time from the point of view of two DIFFERENT observers. For now, only consider the up-down direction.

You are an observer standing on the ground, watching the apple fall. When you try to stop it, it "resists," making you exert a force to counter-act the effects of gravity. Gravity "wants" the apple to keep falling. More specifically, gravity makes the apple "want" to keep accelerating downwards, picking up speed. It wants to keep picking up speed, at the rate of an extra 32 feet per second for every second it falls. We can also say this as: the apple is in the GRIP of gravity and compels it to accelerate downwards an amount of 32.