College Physics (10th Edition)
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Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
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Chapter 11, Problem 54GP
An astronaut notices that a pendulum that took 2.50 s for a complete cycle of swing when the rocket was waiting on the launch pad takes 1.25 s for the same cycle of swing during liftoff. What is the acceleration of the rocket? (Hint: Inside the rocket, it appears that g has increased.)
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