Thursday, October 30, 2008

Fundamentals: Measuring the true acceleration due to gravity of value 9.83

When an object is released in an experiment to determine the acceleration due to gravity, there is also acceleration due to circular motion (for rotation ). Hence the acceleration measured in expt is less than the true value taken to be 9.83 Nkg-1.Express in formula :
m(9.83) = m g' + m (w2R)
g' = 9.83 - w2R
g' = 9.83 - 0.034 = 9.796 ms-2