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Gravity
Gravity QuickTime™ and a
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 GRAVITY DEFINED
• Gravity is the tendency of objects with
mass to accelerate towards each other
• Gravity is one of the four fundamental
forces (interactions) in nature.
 Gravity and our Solar System

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• The Sun’s gravity is what holds our solar system

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 Planets and Gravity

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• Pluto has the least

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THE HISTORY OF GRAVITY

Sir Isaac Newton

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Law of Gravitation in
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 UNIVERSAL LAW OF
GRAVITATION

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Gravity is greater when mass is larger

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 MICROGRAVITY

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• The further an object is away from another object, the

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• The further an object moves from the surface of the Earth,
the less gravity it feels from the Earth.
• Scientists on the Space Shuttle experience microgravity
Mass and Weight are two different
Properties of Matter
MASS WEIGHT
 Mass is a physical property of  Weight is a force which is
matter that explains how much
calculated by multiplying the
matter is in an object
acceleration of gravity times
 Mass does not change when
mass.
gravity changes
 Weight can change when
gravity changes

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 MASS

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• IF YOU PULLED A MOUSE AND AN ELEPHANT WITH THE

SAME AMOUNT OF FORCE, THE ELEPHANT WOULD
RESPOND LESS TO PULLING EVEN IF HE DIDN’T PULL BACK
AT ALL
• THAT IS BECAUSE AN ELEPHANT HAS MORE MASS THAN A
MOUSE
 WEIGHT

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• An elephant on the Earth would weigh less on the Moon,

because gravity is less on the moon.
• An elephant’s mass would not change if he went to the
moon