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This is often described as "the acceleration due to gravity". Is this really the best thing to call this? No. A better name would be "the local gravitational field" and list it in units of: ...
I was assuming he got his gun out into orbit at a reasonable distance before firing. It takes about 42km/s to escape the Sun's gravity at 1 AU. If the gun is matching Earth's speed at 32km/s and ...
Do you feel acceleration in space if you aren't close to an object with enough gravity? It's a way tv shows [illustrate] motion but I feel like that isn't going to be accurate without gravity.
AN absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity at a site in the National Physical Laboratory has recently been completed. It is the first to be made by timing the symmetrical up-and ...
Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration before Newton Caltech engineers even re-created his experiment with a modern apparatus.
Galileo’s famous gravity experiment holds up, even with individual atoms Different types of atoms fall with the same acceleration due to gravity ...