The net acceleration $\begin{array}{l}g\end{array}$ that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from distribution of mass within Earth) and the centrifugal force (from the Earth's rotation):

$\begin{array}{l}g\end{array}$ = 9.80665 m/s² = 32.17405 ft/s²

The above value can be calculated using the Earth's Gravity:

(1)	$\begin{array}{l}\displaystyle g = G \cdot \frac{M_⊕}{R_⊕^2}\end{array}$

where

$\begin{array}{l}M_⊕ = 5.9722 \cdot 10^{24} \; \mbox{kg}\end{array}$	Earth's mass
$\begin{array}{l}R_⊕ = 6,378 \; \mbox{km}\end{array}$	Earth's radius

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