ILoveMaths07
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I mean... wind causes air resistance, right? No wind = negligible air resistance, right? Can 'wind' be a source of error in experiments used to find a value for the acceleration due to gravity, for instance projectile motion experiments, rolling a trolley down a slope, dropping a ball from a height, pendulum experiments etc.? Why or why not? Won't wind cause a ball, for instance, to fall down faster, thus increasing its acceleration, and causing the experimental value of g to be higher than expected? Please help.