he NEXT morning, you wake up in a strange room yet again, and this time you drop a ball from a height of 2.15 m above the floor. The ball hits the floor 0.265 s after your drop it. You guess that you must have been taken to an alien planet with gravity different from Earth s. What is this planet s g (that is, the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity on this planet)?     61.2 m/s^2     30.6 m/s^2     45.9 m/s^2     97.9 m/s^2

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The NEXT morning, you wake up in a strange room yet again, and this time you drop a ball from a height of 2.15 m above the floor. The ball hits the floor 0.265 s after your drop it. You guess that you must have been taken to an alien planet with gravity different from Earth s. What is this planet s g (that is, the magnitude of the acceleration due to gravity on this planet)?
   
61.2 m/s^2
   
30.6 m/s^2
   
45.9 m/s^2
   
97.9 m/s^2
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