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Acceleration due to gravity, acceleration of gravity or gravity acceleration may refer to:

  • Gravitational acceleration, the acceleration caused by the gravitational attraction of massive bodies in general
  • Gravity of Earth, the acceleration caused by the combination of gravitational attraction and centrifugal force of the Earth
  • Standard gravity, or g, the standard value of gravitational acceleration at sea level on Earth

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Acceleration due to gravity

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Acceleration due to gravity, acceleration of gravity or gravity acceleration may refer to: Gravitational acceleration, the acceleration caused by the...

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Standard gravity

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The standard acceleration of gravity or standard acceleration of free fall, often called simply standard gravity and denoted by ɡ0 or ɡn, is the nominal...

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Gravity of Earth

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The gravity of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution...

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Gravitation of the Moon

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The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of the Moon is approximately 1.625 m/s2, about 16.6% that on Earth's surface or 0.166 ɡ. Over the entire...

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Weight

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the weight of an object, is the force acting on the object due to acceleration or gravity. Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity...

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Proper acceleration

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being measured. Gravitation therefore does not cause proper acceleration, because the same gravity acts equally on the inertial observer. As a consequence...

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Projectile motion

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linearly, because the acceleration due to gravity is constant. The accelerations in the x and y directions can be integrated to solve for the components...

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Surface gravity

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The surface gravity may be thought of as the acceleration due to gravity experienced by a hypothetical test particle which is very close to the object's...

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Gravitational acceleration

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In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag). This is the...

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Torr

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However, since the acceleration due to gravity – and thus the weight of a column of mercury – is a function of elevation and latitude (due to the rotation and...

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Gravity battery

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gravitational potential energy, m is the mass of the object, g is the acceleration due to gravity (9.8 m/s2 on earth), and h is the height of the object. Using...

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Artificial gravity

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rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference (the transmission of centripetal acceleration via normal...

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Acceleration

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it is impossible to distinguish whether an observed force is due to gravity or to accelerationgravity and inertial acceleration have identical effects...

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Gravimetry

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and the g (gn), equal to 9.80665 m/s2. The value of the gn is defined as approximately equal to the acceleration due to gravity at the Earth's surface...

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Free fall

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all objects experience the same acceleration due to gravity. On the Moon, however, the gravitational acceleration is approximately 1.63 m/s2, or only...

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Hydrostatics

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{\displaystyle p(h)=p(0)e^{-{\frac {Mgh}{kT}}}} where g is the acceleration due to gravity T is the absolute temperature k is Boltzmann constant M is the...

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Gravity wave

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{\frac {g}{k}}},} where g is the acceleration due to gravity. When surface tension is important, this is modified to c = g k + σ k ρ , {\displaystyle...

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Centrifuge

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molecules of different masses. Large centrifuges are used to simulate high gravity or acceleration environments (for example, high-G training for test pilots)...

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Pressure head

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volume, typically expressed in kg/m3) g {\displaystyle g} is acceleration due to gravity (i.e. rate of change of velocity, expressed in m/s2). Note that...

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Coriolis force

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of the Coriolis acceleration ( v e cos ⁡ φ {\displaystyle v_{e}\cos \varphi } ) is small compared with the acceleration due to gravity (g, approximately...

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Pendulum

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seismometers. Historically they were used as gravimeters to measure the acceleration of gravity in geo-physical surveys, and even as a standard of length...

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