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A low cost technique to find gravitational acceleration

Physics Education 2024-08-07 v2

Abstract

The most common way to find gravitational acceleration, g, in a laboratory is to use a simple pendulum and a clock. Alternately, g can be calculated by measuring time and distance for a free fall. Since the time of free fall in a laboratory is short, there are challenges in measuring the short period. In this article, a low cost technique to measure the time for a free fall using a discharging RC circuit is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2408.01451,
  title  = {A low cost technique to find gravitational acceleration},
  author = {Chetan Kotabage},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.01451},
  year   = {2024}
}
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