Re: [Phys-l] g...

["R. McDermott" <rmcder@gmail.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Gottlieb" <herbgottlieb@juno.com>
To: <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Cc: <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] g...


> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:13:29 -0500 "R. McDermott" <rmcder@gmail.com>
> writes:
> > I introduce g as the strength of a  gravitational field due to the
> Earth, remind them that it varies
> > with  distance, etc, and has a value of 9.81 N/kg at the Earth's
> surface.
>
> If you wrote that g has a value of 9.8 N/kg at the Earth's surface,
> I would agree. But is it correct to add the additional significant
> figure  and make it 9.81 here??

NY State syllabus (and reference table) now gives it as 9.81, not 9.8 as in 
previous years.  We are obliged to conform.