An astronaut named Bill lands on a newly discovered plant (called New) and wishe

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An astronaut named Bill lands on a newly discovered plant (called New) and wishes to find the acceleration due to gravity on New. Bill knows that during training, they timed the fall of a hammer from 1.00 meters but can't remember the time. He calculates the time for the hammer to fall on Earth, and then performs an experiment by dropping the hammer from various heights on New. Bill finds that the hammer falls only 0.17 meters on New in the same time that it tool the hammer to fall 1.00 meters on Earth. What is the acceleration due to gravity on planet New?

Explanation / Answer

1=1/2*10*t^2 thus t = ? and 0.17 = 1/2*a*t^2 a=?

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