Gravity

?What is Gravity
• Gravity or gravitation is a natural phenomenon by

• which
Also it objects
is a force that
with causes
mass things
attract oneto fall when they
another.

are dropped.The force of gravity gives things their

weight.
• Every object has its own force of gravity.

• Gravity depends on the amount of material that

makes up an object. The more material an object has,

the stronger is its force of gravity. The force of gravity

between two objects decreases as the objects get
farther apart.
 Isaac Newton
•Was the first one to discover the law of gravity in the 17th century.

•He stated that :any two objects or particles having nonzero mass,

the force of gravity tends to attract them toward each other.

•Gravity operates on objects of all sizes, from subatomic particles

to clusters of galaxies. It also operates over all distances, no

matter how small or great.
?Can we see gravity
How can we feel the effect of
?gravity
When a man wants to parachute out of a
plane he falls down towards the ground
because of gravity.

Gravity

Ground
 Also

With Against
gravity gravity

When we descend But we feel tired when

down we don’t feel tired we ascend up

Walking on earth is the natural movement

What happens in case of absence
?of Gravity
Life on earth is impossible without Gravity

A big mess
is the only description of our earth
in case of absence of Gravity.
Is gravity the same over the surface of the Earth?
 It turns out that in some places you will feel
slightly heavier than others. The next map will
show us in exaggerated highs and lows where
the gravitational field of earth is relatively strong
and weak.
• A low spot can be seen just off the coast of India,
while a relative high occurs in the South Pacific
Ocean.
• The cause of these irregularities is unknown since
present surface features do not appear dominant.
• Scientists hypothesize that factors that are more
important lay in deep underground structures and
may be related to the earth's appearance in the
distant past.
Is light affected by gravity?
 Light is affected by gravity, but not in its speed.
General relativity gives two effects of gravity on light.
1 2

It can bend light (which It can change the energy of

includes effects such as light by shifting the
frequency of the light
gravitational lensing) by
(gravitational redshift) not
warping space so that by changing light speed.
what the light beam sees
as "straight" is not
straight to an outside
observer.
The speed of light is still constant.
?What about Gravity and astronomy
 Astronomers say that all the planets
have gravity that attracts the nearby bodies and
the force of gravity is proportional
to the mass of this planet
and
the distance between it and the bodies that it
attracts
So that, all the cosmic bodies like the sun, moon,
planets, stars, and cosmic dust, etc..
all have gravitational fields.
Earth's gravity keeps the moon on its path
around the Earth.
Is the Gravity equal in all planets?
The moon has its own gravity, but it is not as
strong as that of Earth. That is why astronauts
on the moon can carry equipment that would
be too heavy to carry on Earth.
On Earth, you might be able to jump 3 feet
(almost 1 meter). On the moon, which has low
gravity, you might jump 20 feet (6 meters). On
Jupiter, which has high gravity, you could jump
only 14 inches (35 centimeters).

On Earth On Jupiter

On the moon
 Fun in space

An astronaut who finds juggling fruit is easy

without Earth's gravity pulling it down.
 Therefore the earth has a gravity field that
attracts people to it and because of this
gravity the objects are settled on the surface
of the earth even the atmosphere.
 This means that if there wasn't a
gravitational field for the earth, the
atmosphere would have escaped and faded
away in the outer space.
Hence, the gravity is the reason for the
stability of life on earth.