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A 100.0 g mass falls off the table in the physics lab. You measure the table to be 94.0 cm
high. How much work W, in units of joules ( 1 J = 1 kg⋅m2/s2 ) does gravity do on the mass
asitfalls?Theworkdonebygravityis W =F d mgd=where g=9.81m/s2 and d isthe G
vertical distance the mass falls.
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