An Astronaut Has Landed on an Asteroid and Conducts an Experiment

question 46

Multiple Choice

An astronaut has landed on an asteroid and conducts an experiment to determine the free fall acceleration on that asteroid.He uses a simple pendulum that has a period of oscillation of 2.00 s on Earth and finds that on the asteroid the period is 11.3 s.What is the free fall acceleration on that asteroid?

• A)0.307 m/s²
• B)1.66 m/s²
• C)1.74 m/s²
• D)5.51 m/s²
• E)0.0544 m/s²

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