BRAINCAKEPractical: Measuring g
The acceleration due to gravity can be measured using the apparatus above.
An electromagnet is used to hold a steel ball.
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Key terms in this lesson
- systematic error
- An error that shifts every reading from the true value by the same amount or in the same direction, which averaging cannot remove.
- random error
- An error causing unpredictable, unbiased scatter in repeated readings around the true value, which can be reduced by repeating and averaging.
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- Newton's Third Law of Motion
- Constant Acceleration
- Distance from Average Speed
- Constant Acceleration Formulae
- Constant Acceleration Question 1
- Constant Acceleration Question 2
- Resolving Vectors
- Resolving Vectors at an Angle
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