Universal Law of Gravitation?

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2. Universal Law of Gravitation “Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star!” 1933 Nobel prize winner, Paul Dirac, Physicist He was speaking of the far reaching effects of gravity

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5. Universal Law of Gravitation Everything pulls on everything else in a beautifully simple way that involves only mass and distance Newton did not discover gravity…what Newton discovered was that gravity is universal.

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7. Universal Law of Gravitation • F = force of gravity • M1= mass of one object • m2= mass of other object • d = distance between the centers • of the masses • G = universal gravitational • constant

8. Universal Law of Gravitation The force of gravity between 2 objects is actually a very weak force. Big G is 6.67 x 10-11 N-m2 • kg 2 We sense gravity only when very large masses, like the earth, are involved.

9. Universal Law of Gravitation • Using only pencil and paper, Neptune was discovered. • Uranus was behaving strangely despite all the calculations of Newton’s law of gravitation. Two astronomers in 1846 sent letters to observatories to search a certain part of the sky. The planet Neptune was discovered in ½ hour. • Again, Pluto was discovered the same way, because of the odd behavior of Uranus. • As the planet Jupiter approaches the planet Saturn in its orbit, it tends to deviate from its otherwise smooth path; this deviation, or perturbation, is easily explained when considering the effect of the gravitational pull between Saturn and Jupiter.

10. Universal Law of Gravitation “Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star!” 1933 Nobel prize winner, Paul Dirac, Physicist He was speaking of the far reaching effects of gravity

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