Comments on: An experiment to determine g – the acceleration due to gravity at the Earth’s surface https://freakytrigger.co.uk/science/2003/10/an-experiment-to-determine-g Lollards in the high church of low culture Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:33:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: admin https://freakytrigger.co.uk/science/2003/10/an-experiment-to-determine-g/comment-page-1#comment-40269 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:33:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/science/2003/10/an-experiment-to-determine-g/#comment-40269 now that’s a lot of significant figures!

accuracy to 10-15 ms-2. Basing that on timing a bear falling out of a tree would require you to measure the distance fallen and time of fall immensely accurately. I also imagine that you would have to repeat the experiment several times and work out the error in your measurements – clearly quite low in this case. The error induced by air resistance would also need to be taken in to account at this accuracy.

So in summary, from your accurate figure i deduce that you have repeatedly dropped a bear on the ground in a vacuum.

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By: DR Andrew Mackay https://freakytrigger.co.uk/science/2003/10/an-experiment-to-determine-g/comment-page-1#comment-40256 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:10:08 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/science/2003/10/an-experiment-to-determine-g/#comment-40256 Hi my name is Andy

I think your experiment is excellent but not completely correct.

If you repeat the experiment with a different bear , for example a polar bear you will find that your values are in-acccurate.

The actual value according to my results are that g = 9.8125569898721271 N/kg.

Yours sincerely
DR.Andrew Mackay

P.S If you require more information feel free to mail me on my supplied address.

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