So, I learned in physics class at school in the UK that the value of acceleration due to gravity is a constant called g and that it was 9.81m/s^2. I knew that this value is not a true constant as it is affected by terrain and location. However I didn’t know that it can be so significantly different as to be 9.776 m/s^2 in Kuala Lumpur for example. I’m wondering if a different value is told to children in school that is locally relevant for them? Or do we all use the value I learned?

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    While I don’t know the answer and that for simplicity it should probably be a global average, it is probably some “constant“ measured from some location in either Europe or North America before they were able to measure globally using satellites.