Question

uppose you are an astronaut and you have been stationed on a distant planet. You would like to find the acceleration due to the gravitational force on this planet so you devise an experiment. You throw a rock up in the air with an initial velocity of 6 m/s and use a stopwatch to record the time it takes to hit the ground. If it takes 6.8 s for the rock to return to the same location from which it was released, what is the acceleration due to gravity on the planet

Answer 1

g = -3.143 m/s²

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine acceleration due to the gravitational force, it can be used the following formula:

v = v₀ + gt, where:

v₀ is the initial velocity;

g is acceleration due to gravity

t is the time to return to the point of origin