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Author: SERWAY, Raymond A.
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Chapter 13, Problem 54P
An astronaut on the Moon wishes to measure the local value of g by timing pulses traveling down a wire that has a large object suspended from it. Assume a wire of mass 4.00 g is 1.60 m long and has a 3.00-kg object suspended from it. A pulse requires 36.1 ms to traverse the length of the wire. Calculate gMoon from these data. (You may neglect the mass of the wire when calculating the tension in it.)
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