How fast does a freely falling object accelerate near Earth’s surface?

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Near Earth’s surface, a freely falling object experiences a constant acceleration, denoted as g, of approximately 9.8 meters per second squared (m/s²). This means that for every second an object is in free fall, its speed increases by about 9.8 meters per second.12

In the context of physics, this value is also frequently expressed as 980.665 centimeters per second squared. In the absence of air resistance, all objects fall with this same constant acceleration regardless of their mass.31