Welcome Year 10

Sit in your allocated seat, get out your laptop

and begin the starter.
Date: 05/11/22
Mass and weight
Starter: 2 MINS

Your parcel weighs 1kg sir. How

fast would you like it delivered?
What is wrong with this
sentence?

ANSWER
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Newton’s observations
A force pulls an apple downwards:

Another force keeps the Moon in

orbit around the Earth. I wonder if
it’s the same force?
Newton 1642-1727

This insight led to the

first universal law of
nature!
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Gravity
Gravity is an attractive force that affects anything with mass:

Note that this force goes

both ways – the Earth is
attracted to us.
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Gravitational forces
Anything with mass attracts This is due to the gravitational
anything else with mass: field around anything with mass:

Strong
field

Weak
field
 VIDEO TIME!

Firstly, please watch the following videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0X0yE8Ioc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05EXSF5rVSE
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Weight and mass
The MASS of an object is a measure of how much “stuff” it contains”.
The WEIGHT of an object is the amount of force that pulls it downwards
due to gravity.

1 kg
This object has a MASS of 1kg…

…and a WEIGHT of 10N

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Weight vs. Mass
Earth’s Gravitational Field Strength is 10N/kg. In other words, a 1kg
mass is pulled downwards by a force of 10N.

Weight = Mass x Gravitational Field Strength W

(in N) (in kg) (in N/kg)

m g

1) What is the weight on Earth of a book with mass 2kg? ANSWER

2) What is the weight on Earth of an apple with mass 100g? ANSWER
3) Charles weighs 700N on the Earth. What is his mass?
ANSWER
4) On the moon the gravitational field strength is 1.6N/kg. What will
Charles weigh if he stands on the moon? ANSWER
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Earth – gravitational field

strength = 9.8N/Kg
Jupiter – gravitational field
strength = 25N/Kg
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 VIDEO TIME!

Firstly, please watch the following video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whMAIGNq7E