Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?
Does everyone learn the same gravity in school or is it different everywhere?
So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn't know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in Kuala Lumpur for example. I'm wondering if a different value is told to children in school that is locally relevant for them? Or do we all use the value I learned?
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This is why you have so many Russians being thrown out of windows in high buildings. They're testing the local value of g.
Dimitri, come to the window! I have a stopwatch and questions about the local density of the Earth's crust!