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GRAVITY
-Acceleration Due to
Gravity.
-Gravitational Field.
-Gravitational Field
happen?
The object will falling down
What is Newtons Second Law?
Newton stated the relationship
between force, mass and
acceleration.
F=ma
GRAVITY
Introduces by Sir Isaac Newton.
Objects fall because they are
successive images
increases, showing that the
ball are falling with
increasing velocity , i.e.,
falling with an acceleration
The acceleration of objects falling freely is known
ACCELERATION DUE TO
GRAVITY
On the late 16th century, Galileo
acceleration is independent
of mass.
BOYLE invented
vacuum pump to
remove air.
In vacuum, both
objects reach the
bottom of the
cylinder at the
same time.
In atmosphere, a
piece of tissue
paper does not
FREE FALL
A free-falling object is an
GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
FORCE OF
GRAVITY
FORCE OF
GRAVITY
FORCE OF
GRAVITY
FORCE OF
GRAVITY
GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
STRENGTH
The gravitational field
WEIGHT, W
The weight of an object is
F = ma
W= mg
g is the
gravitatio
nal
accelerati
on
EXAMPLE 1
A marble is dropped from
EXAMPLE 2
A rock has a mass of
SUMMARY