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So, that's the big result.
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It'll slide down the hill with an acceleration g · sin(θ).
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This is a good way to measure g, by the way,
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because if you drop something,
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it falls too fast for you to time it.
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But if you let it go down an incline,
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by making θ very small
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so sin(θ) is very small and the grading is very low,
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the body can accelerate with a much slower acceleration downhill,
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because it's reduced by this factor, sin(θ).
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Okay, here's another thing I should tell you right now.
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Most of us, when we become professionals,