dtunName_________________________________ Home Challenge Lab 2- The force of Gravity Topics covered in this lab: The force of gravity Newton’s Laws One of the topics we have discussed is acceleration‚ meaning that the velocity of the object under study was changing. What causes something to accelerate? In this lab you will investigate the forces that affect the motion of objects. Gravity Materials: <!--[endif]-->Something to toss (Please choose an object that will not break)
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There is a popular story that Newton was sitting under an apple tree‚ an apple fell on his head‚ and he suddenly thought of the Universal Law of Gravitation. As in all such legends‚ this is almost certainly not true in its details‚ but the story contains elements of what actually happened. What Really Happened with the Apple? Probably the more correct version of the story is that Newton‚ upon observing an apple fall from a tree‚ began to think along the following lines: The apple is accelerated
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First Law of Motion Isaac Newton’s first law of motion states that an object in motion tends to stay in motion‚ and an object at rest tends to stay at rest‚ unless an outside force is acting upon the object. This is a simple‚ yet complex concept that we see and feel every day. Long before this law of motion was observed and put into words it was acting upon us as human beings‚ as well as every other object‚ not only here on earth but everywhere in the universe. How Newton’s first law of motion affects
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November 2014 “The Life of Sir Isaac Newton” When I had to choose a name from the list of the greatest mathematicians‚ it became a difficult task to only choose one. There are so many people to choose from‚ but I chose‚ Isaac (Sir) Newton. Isaac Newton was born on January 4th 1643 in Woolsthorpe‚ England. Newton died on March 31‚ 1727 in London. Newton was a very different type of mathematician‚ his ways were not always the same as the other greats. Isaac Newton mainly used mathematics as a researching
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The newtons theroy of it should be trueDuring the first half of the 19th century‚ scientists such as John Herschel‚ Fox Talbot‚ and William Swan studied the spectra of different chemical elements in flames. Gradually‚ the idea that each element produces a set of characteristic emission lines was established. Each element has several prominent‚ and many lesser‚ emission lines in a characteristic pattern. Sodium‚ for example‚ has two prominent yellow lines (the so-called D lines) at 589.0 and 589.6
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Newton’s First Law of Motion says that unless an outside force acts on an object‚ the object will continue to move at its present speed and direction. Unless the objects inside the car are restrained they will continue moving at whatever speed the car is traveling even if the car is stopped by a crash. Changing or stopping an object’s momentum requires a force acting over a period of time. If momentum changes instantly‚ as in a car crash‚ the force is very‚ very great! In a head-on collision‚ if
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Huey P Newton [pic] Huey P. Newton was born on February 17‚ 1942 in Monroe‚ Louisiana to the parents of Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton. When Huey was young his family settled in Oakland California. Huey was born underprivileged and surrounded by poverty; however he never went without food or shelter. Heading down the wrong path of a life‚ as a juvenile and committing crimes even being arrested. Even though he had a few run-ins with the
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One World: Motion Topic: Write an article that explores how the Physics of Motion is (or can be) used to solve a specific problem in a local or global context. Millions of people everywhere around the world make use of the principles of motion to travel up and down quickly within a tall building. The use of elevators has been around since ancient medieval times since then has grown from being powered by a hoist and winder to electric and hydraulic motors1. An elevator
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Galileo and Newton 2/4/97 Galileo believed the physical world to be bounded. He says that all material things have "this or that shape" and are small or large in relation to other things. He also says that material objects are either in motion or at rest‚ touching or not touching some other body‚ and are either one in number‚ or many. The central properties of the material world are mathematical and strengthened through experimentation. Galileo excludes the properties of tastes‚ odors‚ colors
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The purpose of this lab was to learn about Newton’s laws of motion by completing an experiment‚ to see how the forces act on objects. The independent variable of this experiment is the type and amount of materials used for the interior of the vehicle (out of the material list) and how they were used. The dependent variable is how and if the interior of the vehicle protected the egg from getting cracked. The controlled variables of this experiment were the height that the vehicle was dropped from
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