Re: summary of weight

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 21:10 10/17/99 -0400,  Michael Edmiston wrote:

> What I don't remember well is what the chemists say about earth's
> rotation, your elevation, and earth's varying density.  I think they
> would claim these also should be removed as one goes from the apparent
> weight to the true weight.  I think that means they would know what
> their local value of g is, then they would correct the apparent weight
> back to some standard value for g.  However, I don't know what value of
> "standard g" they would use.  Would they use Gm/r^2, or would they use
> 9.80665?...

> Michael D. Edmiston

The 12th edition of
Lange's Handbook of Chemistry,
J.A Dean,  McGraw-Hill  (1979)

offers tables to correct latitude and altitude to the value for
sea level at Lat N45 given there as g = 980 665 cm s^-2



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK