You Have Landed Your Spaceship on the Moon and Want

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Multiple Choice

You have landed your spaceship on the moon and 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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