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Free Fall Experiment: Determination of g Lab
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Purpose and Introduction:
The constant for acceleration is regularly used in physics and a lot of equations include it. The
acceleration due to gravity near the Earth’s surface is approximately 9.80m/s
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, or 980cm/s
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During this experiment we dropped a metal ball from a known distance, timed it, and then

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