Parker Moreland did an excellent analysis on measuring g with a photogate and suggests a procedure for minimizing error. This article also includes a formula and chart for calculating a local value for gravitational acceleration.<\/p>\n
“Improving precision and accuracy in the g lab.” Parker Moreland. The Physics Teacher, Sep 2000. http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1119\/1.1321823<\/a><\/p>\n You can also get a theoretical local value for g from WolframAlpha, http:\/\/wolframalpha.com<\/a> See also: Parker Moreland did an excellent analysis on measuring g with a photogate and suggests a procedure for minimizing error. This article also includes a formula…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1420,844,3733,408,3734,275,491,1205,3735],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-accuracy","tag-error","tag-gravitational-acceleration","tag-gravity","tag-moreland","tag-pf","tag-photogate","tag-picket-fence","tag-vpg-gdx-vpg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nReplace Beaverton, OR in this example with your own location: http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=gravitational+acceleration+Beaverton,+OR<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHow can I use a Vernier Photogate to measure g?<\/a>
\nHow does Logger Pro<\/i> calculate velocity and acceleration from photogate data?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"