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Homework Statement
Hiya,
I was looking over a General Relativity paper today, and at the end of a question on Geodesic Deviation, was "Give a brief statement of a physical effect or thought-experiment which illustrates how the time sqrt(R/g) characterises the Earth’s gravity." (R is the radius of the earth)
Homework Equations
t=sqrt(R/g)
The Attempt at a Solution
Well, I have been looking through chapters of GR texts on Schwarzschild thought experiments, Bondi thought experiments etc., and can't find anything related to this quantity. Obviously any expression containing g characterises Earth's gravity, but I simply don't know what physical effect or thought-experiment the question could be referring to. If anyone could help it would be very much appreciated.
Thanks a lot.