Variation of g with height and depth

Move a mass above or below Earth's surface and across latitudes: g falls as 1/r² above, linearly with depth below, and varies with latitude because of rotation.

About this experiment

What you do in the lab

Change the controls and watch the physics behave in real time in 3D. Live readouts and graphs show the numbers behind it, and the Learn tab has the theory, procedure, observations and viva questions. Works on a phone or a laptop, in English and Hindi.

Topics: gravity · g variation · height · depth · latitude · Earth

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