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Posted by ami on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 8:31pm.

A pendulum has a period of 0.75 s on Earth. What is its period on a planet where the acceleration of gravity is about 0.41 that on Earth?

phy - bobpursley, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 8:40pm
doesn't period= 2PI sqrt(length/g)

or in math language, period is inversely proportional to the square root of g?

TonPlanetx/.75=sqrt(1/.41)

= you do it.

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