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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
A determination of the acceleration due to gravity at Blacksburg, Virginia
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe purpose of the project herein described was to determine the acceleration due to gravity for the locale of Blacksburg, Virginia., to five significant figures. As far as the author has been able to determine, there has never been a formal determination of “g” made for this area. Supporting this prime purpose was the fact that the equipment required for this experiment, i .e. a secondary standard of length, a recording system, and several portable photocell relay circuits, and the vacuum tank, would be useful to the department in the future.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- masters
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Industrial Physics
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Industrial Physics
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1952
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Schweizer, Leslie R.
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
- Language dc:language.iso
- en_US
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53766
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53766