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    launched into space and undergoes significant internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. (IMDb) Firstly, I want to explain what I first observed in the movie, Newton’s first law of motion and law of universal gravitation. Both laws are two prevalent laws that are shown throughout Apollo 13. Newton’s first law of motion states that “an object remains at rest, or in uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change by an extremely imposed force.”

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    Viscosity The viscosity of a fluid of measured by said fluid’s resistance to the gradual deformation caused by shear and tensile stress and is identified as a property of a fluid in which opposes the relative motion between two different surfaces of a fluid both moving at different velocities. A fluid that has no resistance to shear stress is known as an inviscid or ideal fluid. Not every fluid is highly or even somewhat viscous though zero viscosity can only be observed at rather lower temperatures

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    Solar System and Gravity

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    The Effects of Gravity There are some people who worry that when they 're outside, if they don 't keep a good grip on the ground, they 'll just go flinging off into space. They needn 't really worry about this, because gravity generally keeps that sort of thing from happening. The thing is, no one is really sure what causes gravity, but the effects have been studied by many physicists and astronomers. Three of the more obvious effects of gravity are things falling down, weight

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    Apollo 13 was one of the unlucky missions with an explosion and an unfortunate accident. All of the unfortunate event from apollo 13 was seen to be caused by the actual number of 13. Most individuals reference the number 13 with "terrible luck." Apollo 13 was propelled precisely at 1:13pm from the Kennedy Space Center, on April eleventh, 1970. The sum of the launch date's digits assuming that they are all added from left to right, 4/11/70, is equal to the number 13 and the blast that happened on

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    Unit 2: The Ordered Universe Assignment 1. Why was the Ptolemaic system accepted as an explanation of celestial motion for over a thousand years? What did it explain? What system challenged the idea that Earth was the center of the universe? The Ptolemaic system says that the Earth is the center of the universe. Everything else surrounded the Earth. The Copernican system challenged the belief that Earth was the center of the universe. The major difference between the Ptolemaic and Copernican universes

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    Gravity And Force Essay

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    because it always pushes masses together it will not push them apart. Did you know that everything is pulling on every other object in the entire universe. And this fact was found by a scientist called Newton and it is called Newton universal law of gravitation. Gravity decreases with distance, so if you went farther and farther from the planet the gravity will get less. The reason behind the astronauts feel weightless must do with his or her position. The reason that we feel weight on earth because gravity

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    Investigation of Dark Matter Introduction Throughout the years, scientists have been looking for the missing mass of the universe; it has yet remained an unsolved mystery. Using different methods, scientists have tried to determine the mass of the universe and surprisingly found a discrepancy suggesting that ninety percent of the mass of the universe is nowhere to be found. Then here comes the term “dark matter”, referring to this unfound matter of the universe

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    Understanding Black Holes A Black hole is a theorized celestial body whose surface gravity is so strong that nothing, including light, can escape from within it's surface. Gravity is the key to a black hole's immense power. The black hole's strong gravity keeps captured material from escaping. For example, if Earth were the same mass it is now but had only one-fourth its present radius, the escape velocity of someone standing on its surface would be twice what

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    What Is Gravity?

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    cultivation and breeding of animals, even the structural support of buildings and roads are all influenced by gravity. Gravity is an invisible force that brings any object with energy and mass to its center and is made of quantum particles called gravitations. These small scales of atoms and sub atoms of energy gives weight to any physical object and impacts natural phenomenon. It keeps us to the Earth’s land surface, the

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    Year 12 Physics -Term 1 2015- Gravity and Motion Ethan Jones 12PHC SJA   TASK 1: a) b) Equation of line: y = 0.6656x + 8.4604 Therefore gradient = m = 0.6656 R^2= 1 log T^2/r^3 =c logT^2-logr^3=log⁡c 3 log⁡〖r=2logT-logc〗 ∴logr=2/3 logT-1/3 logc y=mx+c m=graident m= 2/3 ∴graident=0.6666 The gradient collected from the graph shows 0.6656 whereas the value that Kepler’s 3rd law shows is 0.6666. This difference can be explained due to the fact that some of the Data collected for the graph

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