PPT-Section 7.4 Gravitational Torque

and the Center of Gravity cont 2015 Pearson Education Inc Calculating the Position of the Center of Gravity The torque due to gravity when the pivot is at the center of gravity is zero. living with the lab. Torque. , also called . moment. or . moment of force. , is the tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis, fulcrum, or pivot. Just as a force is a push or a pull, a torque can be thought of as a twist. . - Class 19. Today:. Rotational . Motion, Rotational Kinematics (some review of Ch.4). Newton’s 2. nd. Law of Rotation. Torque. Moment of Inertia. Centre of Mass. Gravitational Torque. Pre-class reading quiz on Chapter 12. The Child of General Relativity. A Necessary Change. Concepts after Einstein :-. Time is not absolute. There is no ether frame. Notion of . spacetime. Concepts before Einstein :-. There is a preferred reference frame ether. some history. (based on D. . Kennefick’s. work). Historical tidbits. 1776: Laplace suggests four mechanisms that could explain secular perturbations of Moon-Earth orbit. One the explanations was a non-instantaneous propagation of gravity, affecting the binary system (abandoned because its speed would be too large to be measurable to explain the effect). . ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC COLLISIONS. Theodore Tomaras. University of Crete. Motivation. The relevance of classical gravity. A slightly simpler model – scalar radiation. The local and the non-local source. Presentation for . 11. th. . Amaldi. Conference on Gravitational Waves. By. ASHOK TIWARI . June 25, 2015. Tribhuvan. University, Kathmandu, Nepal. 1. Outline. . Statement of the Problem. Introduction. To help explain how two bodies that are not in contact can exert a force on one another (i.e. gravitational, magnetic or electrostatic) we use the concept of fields. .. Fields are spheres of influence. They are invisible and intangible; they simply demonstrate how strong a characteristic is at a certain distance.. Overview of Why and How. Dan Burbank and Tony Young. AST5022. Introduction. Background. Physics. Sources. Detectors and Detector Implications. Questions. Gravitational Waves . Speed-of-light wave propagation solution of Einstein’s Field Equations. Gravitational Waves. Prediction. General Relativity – 1915. Gravity is not the pulling force envisioned by Kepler or Newton. Space warps around massive objects. Accelerating massive objects could radiate distortions like the wake of a boat. Simon Fraser University. Maram Sakr, . Alaa. . Eldin. . Abdelaal. , Syed . Tanveer. . Jishan. , and Omar . Eltobgy. Simon Fraser University. MOTIVATION. METHODOLOGY. PROPOSED APPROACH. RESULTS. CONCLUSIONS. Circular Motion. Objectives:. 1. Solve problems involving centripetal acceleration.. 2. Solve problems involving centripetal force.. 3. Explain how the apparent existence of an outward force in circular motion can be explained as inertia resisting the centripetal force.. Gravitational Potential Energy & Kinetic Energy  GPE When you lift an object up, energy is transferred from your muscles in to gravitational potential energy of the object. Gravitational potential energy (GPE) is energy stored in an object because of its position in the earths gravitational field. https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/system/video_items/files/4/EinsteinsMessengerLIGO.mp4?1436490806. 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. : Rainer Weiss - Barry C. . Barish. -Kip S. . Thorne. "for . decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves". Ravi . kumar. . Kopparapu. Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics (CGWP) . Gravity. Einstein’s General theory of relativity :. Gravity is a manifestation of curvature of 4- dimensional (3 space + 1 time) space-time produced by matter (metric equation ? g.