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
A
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