what to call little "g"

[Al Bachman <BACHMAN@rfmh.org>]

   I've always hedged with;

"g is the intensity of the earth's gravitational field as measured
by the acceleration of free fall, g = 10 m/s^2, downward"

  Later, this can be referred to as "the gravitational intensity"

  However, students still use the inapropriate " acceleration of
gravity" when using W=mg, or in non-free-fall cases.