Posted by Danielle on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 6:02pm.
First of all, at the Earth's surface, g is 9.8 m/s^2, not 10 m/s^2.
As you get higher above the surface of the Earth, g decreases in proportion to the inverse square of the distance from the center. You will need to look up the Earth's radius Re to make the correction.
Multiply the surface g value by
[Re/(Re + 200)]^2
Re must be in miles. It is roughly 4000 miles.
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