A pendulum clock is set to give correct time at the sea level. This clock is moved to hill station at an altitude of 2500 m above the sea level. In order to keep correct time of the hill station, the length of the pendulum
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. At the hill g will decrease so to keep the time period same the length of pendulum
has to be reduced.
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