time-nuts@lists.febo.com

Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement

View all threads

Re: time nuts 1690's style

FG
Francis Grosz
Wed, Sep 20, 2023 4:51 PM

Folks,

 Back when I was on the EE faculty at the University of New Orleans,

one of the Civil Engineering guys was hosting an instrument from the
Geodetic Survey people.  It was an automated system that would repeatedly
drop a weight in a vacuum and measure its fall to determine g locally.
Apparently they have this mapped out for the country.  And I have also read
that the Air Force has g mapped out for the Earth.  They need this for
proper trajectory calculations of ICBMs.

 Francis Grosz
Folks, Back when I was on the EE faculty at the University of New Orleans, one of the Civil Engineering guys was hosting an instrument from the Geodetic Survey people. It was an automated system that would repeatedly drop a weight in a vacuum and measure its fall to determine g locally. Apparently they have this mapped out for the country. And I have also read that the Air Force has g mapped out for the Earth. They need this for proper trajectory calculations of ICBMs. Francis Grosz