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The value adopted in the International Service of Weights and Measures for the standard acceleration due to Earth's gravity is 980.665 cm/s, value already stated in the laws of some countries.
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from the rotation of the Earth (but the latter is small enough to be negligible for most purposes); the total (the apparent gravity) is about 0.5% greater at the
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of 760 mm. But since that weight depends on the local gravity, they now also needed a standard gravity. The 1887 CIPM meeting decided as follows:
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of 45°. Although the actual acceleration of free fall on Earth varies according to location, the above standard figure is always used for
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defined above is a nominal midrange value on Earth, originally based on the acceleration of a body in free fall at sea level at a
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All that was needed to obtain a numerical value for standard gravity was now to measure the gravitational strength at the
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was, in accordance with the 1887 CIPM declaration, obtained by dividing Defforges's result – 980.991 cm⋅s in the
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This result formed the basis for determining the value still used today for standard gravity. The third
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is equal to the acceleration due to gravity at the International Bureau (alongside the
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is also used as a unit for any form of acceleration, with the value defined as above.
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of an object as the product of its mass and this nominal
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purposes. In particular, since it is the ratio of the
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SI units is the ratio of the kilogram-force and the
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Index

Standard acceleration of gravity
gravitational acceleration
vacuum
Earth
defined by standard
General Conference on Weights and Measures
weight
acceleration
gravity
centrifugal acceleration
poles
Equator
Earth's gravity
gravitational constant
gram
g-force
geodetic latitude
metrological
kilogram-force
kilogram
coherent
newton
units of force
International Committee for Weights and Measures
thermometric
boiling point
atmospheric pressure
mercury
Pavillon de Breteuil
International Bureau

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