You wake up one morning find yourself in a strange room with opaque walls, and no visible doors or windows. You decide to do some experiments to find out more about your strange situation. There is a window in the floor, and you can see that you re in a rocket which has just taken off from the surface of an alien planet. By taking careful measurements out that window you determine that the rocket is accelerating upward at 8.14 m/s^2. When you drop a ball from a height of 2.15 m, it hits the floor 0.200 s later. What is the value of g for the alien world below you?     117.3 m/s^2     108.4 m/s^2     178.9 m/s^2     99.4 m/s^2

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5. You wake up one morning find yourself in a strange room with opaque walls, and no visible doors or windows. You decide to do some experiments to find out more about your strange situation.

There is a window in the floor, and you can see that you re in a rocket which has just taken off from the surface of an alien planet. By taking careful measurements out that window you determine that the rocket is accelerating upward at 8.14 m/s^2. When you drop a ball from a height of 2.15 m, it hits the floor 0.200 s later. What is the value of g for the alien world below you?
   
117.3 m/s^2
   
108.4 m/s^2
   
178.9 m/s^2
   
99.4 m/s^2
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