Free Fall Experiment: Determination of g Lab
Title Page & Format
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Purpose & Introduction
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Experimental Details
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Results and Discussion
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Conclusions
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References
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Total Grade
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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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