We provide a comprehensive discussion of the corrections needed to accurately measure the acceleration of gravity using a plane pendulum. A simple laboratory experiment is described in which g was determined to four significant figures of accuracy.
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© 1986 American Association of Physics Teachers.
1986
American Association of Physics Teachers
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