Universal Gravitation Everything Pulls on Everything Else 131132 The Falling AppleMoon Without an outside force moving objects continue to move at constant speed in a straight line ID: 442016
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Chapter 13
Universal Gravitation
Everything Pulls on Everything Else!Slide2
13.1-13.2 The Falling Apple/Moon
Without
an outside
force, moving objects continue to move at constant speed in a straight line…inertia. Clearly, the moon is NOT doing this.Thus, a force must be responsible for the moon’s changing motion. Newton reasoned that the moon is falling toward Earth for the same reason an apple falls from a tree—they are both pulled by Earth’s gravity.Slide3
13.2 The Falling Moon
The moon is actually
falling (accelerating)
toward Earth but has great enough tangential velocity to avoid hitting or moving closer to Earth.The moon is actually falling around Earth.
I
t
falls beneath the straight line it would
follow if
no force acted on it.
T
he
moon
is a projectile circling
Earth under the attraction of gravity.Slide4
13.2 The Falling Moon
Newton compared the motion of the moon to a cannonball fired
from the
top of a high mountain. If the cannonball were fired with enough speed, its path would become a circle and the cannonball would circle indefinitely.Slide5
13.2 The Falling Moon
The cannonball and the moon have a
tangential velocity
that is sufficient to ensure nearly circular motion around Earth rather than into it.Mass has no effect on the acceleration of freely falling objects.How far the moon falls should relate only to its distance from Earth’s center.Slide6
13.3 The Falling Earth
Newton’s theory of gravity confirmed the Copernican theory of
the solar
system.If the tangential velocities of the planets were reduced to zero, their motion would be straight toward the sun and they would indeed crash into it…like an apple to the earth The earth and other planets, are behaving just like the moon…they are falling around the sunSlide7
13.4 Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
Newton discovered that gravity is universal. Everything pulls on everything else in a way that involves only mass and distance.
G = 6.67 × 10
–11 N·m2/kg2Slide8
13.5 Gravity and Distance: The Inverse-Square Law
The force of gravity weakens with the square of distance.
For example, if objects were moved 3 times as far apart, 1/9 the force of attraction is present between them.Slide9
13.6 Gravitational Field
Earth can be thought of as being surrounded by a gravitational field that interacts with objects and causes them to experience gravitational forces.
Earth’s gravitational field is strongest near Earth’s surface and weaker at greater distances from Earth. Its direction is toward the center of the earth.
“g” is the gravitational field strengthSlide10
13.7 Gravitational Field Inside a Planet
The gravitational field of Earth at its center is zero!
If you traveled through an imaginary hole drilled completely through Earth, you’d gain speed as you fell from the North Pole toward the center of Earth, and lose speed moving away from the center toward the South Pole.Slide11
13.8 Weight and Weightlessness
Pressure against Earth is the sensation we interpret as weight.
Weightlessness
is not the absence of gravity; rather, it is the absence of a support force.Astronauts in orbit are without a support force and experience weightlessness.Slide12
13.8 Weight and Weightlessness
Weight is what the scale would read…