What is the reaction force to gravity on a falling leaf?

[solars]

When a leaf begins to fall to a ground from a tree, what is the reaction force ot the force of gravity on the leaf?

Is it air resistance?

 

[Hootenanny]

When a leaf begins to fall to a ground from a tree, what is the reaction force ot the force of gravity on the leaf?

Is it air resistance?

You are miss-understanding the concept of action-reaction forces; the action-reaction pair act on different bodies. If the Earth exerts of force of magnitude mg on the leaf, then the leaf exerts a force of equal magnitude on the Earth but in the opposite direction.

 

[solars]

You are miss-understanding the concept of action-reaction forces; the action-reaction pair act on different bodies. If the Earth exerts of force of magnitude mg on the leaf, then the leaf exerts a force of equal magnitude on the Earth but in the opposite direction.

Oh okay thanks! =)