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    Forces: Is Gravity Real - or Does The Earth Just Suck?

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    Forces can make objects move, move faster or slower, and change direction. Gravity is a force that pulls objects toward Earth, giving them weight. Experiments show that in the absence of other forces like air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate due to gravity, as demonstrated by items dropped on the Moon. Understanding and measuring forces helps explain how objects move and interact on Earth and in space.

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    Forces can make objects move, move faster or slower, and change direction. Gravity is a force that pulls objects toward Earth, giving them weight. Experiments show that in the absence of other forces like air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate due to gravity, as demonstrated by items dropped on the Moon. Understanding and measuring forces helps explain how objects move and interact on Earth and in space.

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    Gravity

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    Forces can make objects move, move faster or slower, and change direction. Gravity is a force that pulls objects toward Earth, giving them weight. Experiments show that in the absence of other forces like air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate due to gravity, as demonstrated by items dropped on the Moon. Understanding and measuring forces helps explain how objects move and interact on Earth and in space.

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    Forces: Is Gravity Real - or Does The Earth Just Suck?

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    FORCES

    Is gravity real -
    or does the Earth
    just suck?
    What do forces do?
    Make things ----
    move
     move faster
     move slower
     change direction
    also
    change shape
    2
    Big and Little
    forces

    We can measure forces


    Using a forcemeter
    3
    Sir Isaac
    Newton

    4
    Which fruit ?

    5
    Newton?

    6
    Gravity is a force
     When gravity pulls something
    towards the Earth -

    - we call this force the weight.

    7
    Forces are measured in
    Newtons

    Weight of an apple = about 1 Newton

    8
    Let’s play
    a game !

    9
    Results
    Measurement
    A B C
    in Newtons
    Predicted

    Real

    10
    Forcemeters
    11
     Now another game!

    12
    Lifting a ping pong ball
    Suck !
    .

    straw

    13
    ping pong ball falling

    The arrow represents the


    force of gravity

    14
    The ball does not fall when your
    sucking force = force of gravity
    Suck

    straw
    How
    have I
    shown
    this ?

    gravity
    15
    Which diagram shows the sucking
    force equal to the force of gravity?
    Suck
    Suck
    Suck

    straw
    straw
    straw

    gravity gravity
    gravity16
    The ball does not fall when your
    upward force = force of gravity
    Suck

    straw

    gravity
    17
    Gravity down under

     People
    do not
    fall off
    the
    Earth

    18
    two
    objects
    dropped
    at the
    same time

    19
    On the Moon – Apollo 15
    A heavy geological hammer
    and a falcon feather were
    dropped from the same
    height.
    They hit the lunar surface at
    the same time.

    astronaut David Scott

     http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/featherdrop_sound.mov

    NASA pictures 20
    Hippo jump

    21
    Hippo jump

    Force of gravity

    22
    Saved?

    23
    Hippo is still
    falling quickly

    24
    Hippo is still falling air resistance
    quickly

    but not getting


    faster

     How do we know?

    Force of gravity
    25
    How can we slow Hippo
    down?

     What can you change?

    26
    Launching a satellite
    The cannon
    ball must
    move
    very
    quickly to
    orbit the
    earth.

    The Moon
    orbits
    the Earth

    27
    The Earth

    The Moon
    28
    The Earth

    The Moon

    29
    On the Moon

    NASA pictures
    30
    Very heavy boots- Why?
    Answers?
     No gravity on the Moon
     Weightless on the Moon
     To stop them floating away
     They weigh very much less than on Earth
     To stop huge bounces
     The Moon’s gravity is very much less than the
    Earth’s gravity

    31
    Weightless?

     or are they?

    (NASA pictures) 32
    apparently weightless
    (pictures or animation only –not a demonstration)

    33
    GRAVITY
     Things fall

     Things have weight

     Things stay in place

    34
    No Gravity
     Would an apple fall?
     Would things stay on earth?
     What would happen?

     What?
     Why?
     How?
    keep asking questions
    -like Newton !
    35

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