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Gravity and Weight
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don’t need to
take notes on
this• Zeus has the following:
1. golf ball (70 grams)
2. foam ball (30 grams)
3. plastic ball (15 grams).
• He holds them all exactly ten inches off the ground and drops them at the exactly the same time. There is no air.
• In what order will they hit the ground?– I. 1,2,3– II. 3,2,1– III. all at the same time
Misconceptions about falling objects (3:23)
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• It is “said” that Galileo first dropped two cannonballs off the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy– one was 10x heavier than the other– they both hit the ground at the same time
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• Newton used Galileo’s research to conclude that objects accelerate downwards because of the force of gravity between the object and the earth
• this acceleration is 9.8 m/s/s (or 9.8 m/s2) in a vacuum (no air)
• however realistically, air resistance (fluid friction) often prevents many objects from accelerating this fast
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• Feather and Hammer (47 seconds)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5C5_dOEyAfk
• Feather and Ball Bearing (19 seconds)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJcZ-
KoL9o&feature=related
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assuming no air to slow it
down
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Weight• a measure of gravity’s force on an object that is
directly proportional to its mass– this means gravity pulls more on objects that
are bigger– it does NOT mean it will fall faster
• weight can change depending on the force of gravity– you weigh less on the moon than on the Earth
because the moon has less gravity
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Weight depends on mass and gravity
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W = Weightm = massg = acceleration due to Earth’s gravity which is 9.8 m/s2
W = mg or W = m·g or W = m x g or W = m(g)
Weight formula
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Example problem
• What is the weight of a 50 kg person on Earth?
• or… kg(m/s2) is the same as N• BTW, on the moon, g=1.62 m/s2 which would
only be a weight of 81 N.
m=50 kg W=mgg=9.8 m/s2
given formula set up problem answer w/ unit of measurement
50kg (9.8 m/s2) 490 N
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Newton’s UNIVERSAL Law of Gravitational
Attraction
• all objects in the universe attract each other by the force of gravity
• the size of this force depends on:– the masses of the two objects– the distance between them
Cavendish experiment video (15 seconds)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWlCm0X0QC0
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Fg = Force of gravitym1 = mass of first objectm2 = mass of second objectd = distance between objectsG = universal gravitational constant 6.67 x 10-11 or .0000000000667
m1 · m2
d2
Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitational Attraction
Fg = G ( )
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http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/gravity-force-lab
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Example problem
• A boulder has a mass of 125 kg and another boulder 5 meters away has a mass of 250 kg. What is the gravitational force between the two rocks?
m1=125kg F=G m1m2
m2=250kg d2
d=5m
given formula set up problem answer w/ unit of measurement
G x 125(250) 52
8.3 x 10-8 or0.000000083
NN
only four marks required, answer is extra credit