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Re: database of accel due to gravity

At 10:23 PM -0700 1/24/01, Jim Green, you wrote about Re: database
of accel due to gravity:


I propose that the entire list take a solemn vow not to use the phrase
"acceleration due to gravity" for the local gravitational constant, g, so
that in time we can stamp out this abortion.

Jim, may I assume that the PC (Pedagogically Correct) phrase is
'Gravitational Field Strength', analogous the Electric Field Strength?


and we list the value such that the Centrifugal Field is included ;-)

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