Science Common Sense

1683 - What is the relationship between surface gravity and acceleration on Earth?

The surface gravity and acceleration on Earth are actually the same thing. They both refer to the force that pulls you towards the center of the Earth.

Imagine you throw a ball up in the air. What happens? It comes back down, right? That's because the Earth is pulling on the ball with a force, which is called gravity.

On Earth, this force of gravity pulls you down towards the ground with a strength of 9.8 meters per second squared (m/s^2). That's the acceleration of an object falling towards the ground.

So, on Earth, the surface gravity and acceleration are 9.8 m/s^2, which is really strong, keeping you and everything else on the ground!