What is the acceleration due to gravity on the planet

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Q1. SLAC, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, located at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, accelerated electrons through a vacuum tube two miles long (it can be seen from an overpass of the Junipero Serra freeway that goes right over the accelerator). Electrons which were initially at rest were subjected to a continuous force of 2×10-12 newton along the entire length of two miles (one mile is 1.6 kilometers) and reached speeds very near the speed of light.

Q2. Assume you are an astronaut and you have been stationed on a distant planet. You would like to find the acceleration due to the gravitational force on this planet so you devise an experiment. You throw a rock up in the air with an initial velocity of 7m/s and use stopwatch to record the time it takes to hit the ground. If it takes 8.0s for the rock to return to the same location from which it was released, what is the acceleration due to gravity on the planet?

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