P2_01 Gravitation Influence on the Pole Vault

Jamie Sinclair, Nick Attree, Jon Stock, Chris Rivers

Abstract


A recent popular web comic claimed that differences in the acceleration due to gravity across the Earth could cause a significant difference in the heights attained by identical vaults in the pole vault. This paper seeks to quantify such variation and concludes that it can be as much as 1%.


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