Question

Does anybody have an example of an experiment to measure free-fall acceleration?

Answer 1

I actually just did one in lab. We had a thing on a string that shot out 60 sparks per second as it fell. The sparks would burn holes in a piece of wax paper, showing the distance fallen every 1/60 of a second.

Answer 2

I kinda meant something like...something that proves that "if any object is thrown or dropped in the presence of gravity would experience a constant acceleration"

Answer 3

right, we collected time and position with the experiment. The difference between each position = displacement between each spark. displacement/.01s = velocity. then we calculated the difference between each velocity, which showed us that the acceleration was constant. It's hard to explain, sorry. Probably not the best example, but I thought it might help