You have landed your spaceship on the moon and you want to determine the acceleration due to gravity using a simple pendulum of length 1.0 m. If the period of this pendulum is 5.0 s, what is the value of g on the moon? A) 1.3 m/s² B) 1.6 m/s² C) 0.80 m/s² D) 0.63 m/s² E) 2.4 m/s²

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The formula for the period of a pendulum is T = 2π√(L/g). Solving for g gives g = 4π²L/T². Substituting L = 1.0 m and T = 5.0 s, we find g ≈ 1.6 m/s².

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