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From: owner-phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu
[mailto:owner-phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu]On Behalf Of Hugh Logan
Many texts introduce "g" as the "acceleration due to gravity" in
connection with free fall and projectile motion. These are presented in
chapters on kinematics -- before Newton's laws of motion and the concept
of mass have been presented. In this case, what else could one call "g"
?