Noor Fatima Ms.

Sutjiawan
903 Science

Physics end of the year reflection project

Prompt: What have I learned about the laws our Universe obeys and how to observe,
analyze, and understand our physical world?

Claim: So far this year, we learn about different types of things. One of them is
Newton's laws. We learn about sound, gravity, rockets, Milky Way galaxy, and different
types of forces.

Main idea 1: We cant live on earth without gravity. There's gravity on different types of
planets. There's gravity in space too.
It is true that gravity decreases with distance, when you far away from a planet or star it
is possible that you feel less gravity. That's why in space, you feel weightless. The
reason that astronomers feel weightless has to do with their position compare to their
spaceship. We feel weight on earth because gravity is pulling us down. Any ship in orbit
around the earth is falling slowly to earth. Basically, if the sun had no gravity we would
be drifting off into the space and we would not orbit anything. Because of the sun has
gravity it pulls the planets in, allowing them to orbit the sun. Without the gravity of the
sun there would not be nothing to stop us from flying out into the cold darkness of
space. As a matter of fact without the force of gravity there would be nothing if that
could exist. The one most important thing that's why gravity is important is because if it
didn't exist thier would not be a universe in the first place no life on earth or life ny
undiscovered. Gravity pulls rain and snow down to our rivers. Gravity also keeps the
earth in orbit around the sun and keeps us warm. The gravity on different planets
depending on their size and mass. Mercury is the smallest planet with the least mass
and the least density. The gravity on mercury is only 38% of the gravity on earth. The
radius of Mercury is barely larger than the moon, the gravity is high. The planet Venus is
the same size on earth that's why it is called earth's twin. Venus is the same size as
earth that's why it is called earth's twin. Venus is slightly over 90% of the earth's gravity.
Mars has smaller destiny and mass than our planet, it means it has lower gravity. The
gravity of the mars is 38% of the gravity of earth as same as mercury. Jupiter is the
massive planet in our solar system, means it also has the highest than you would weigh
two and a half times what you would on earth. We can't measure the gravity of Jupiter
because it does not have the solid surface. Saturn and Uranus is like Venus because
they both have the same size and mass like Venus. Saturn has 91% gravity of the earth
and Uranus has 89% gravity as earth. Neptune have 17 times earth's mass 14% more it
can not measure because it does not have solid surface.

Main idea 2: In this project, my question was why does sound echo? Depth of water,
air, and surface make sound echos.


Main idea 3: The main idea of this project is that the Milky Way has a dark halo of dark
matter, our galaxy (Milky Way) contains 200 billions stars, there is a black hole at the
center of our galaxy, how large Milky Way galaxy is.