You Have Landed Your Spaceship on the Moon and You

question 92

Multiple Choice

You have landed your spaceship on the moon and you want to determine the acceleration due to gravity using a simple pendulum of length 1.0 m. If the period of this pendulum is 5.0 s, what is the value of g on the moon?

• A) 1.3 m/s²
• B) 1.6 m/s²
• C) 0.80 m/s²
• D) 0.63 m/s²
• E) 2.4 m/s²

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