If you jump out of an airplane, how fast would you fall? What's the greatest speed you would reach? Let's practice figuring it out without jumping out of a plane.

This experiment will help you get the concept of velocity by allowing you to measure the rate of fall of several objects. It's also a great experiment to record in your science journal.

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You have just taken in a nice bunch of information about the wild world of gravity. This next section is for advanced students, who want to go even deeper. There's a lot of great stuff here but there's a lot of math as well. If you're not a math person, feel free to pass this up. You'll still have a nice understanding of the concept. However, I'd recommend giving it a try. There are some fun things to do and if you're not careful, you might just end up enjoying it!

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If I toss a ball horizontally at the exact same instant that I drop another one from my other hand, which one reaches the ground first? For this experiment, you need: Please login or register to read the rest of this content.



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2 Responses to “Gravity”

  1. Yes please send me an image of what you have worked out so we can help.

  2. laurene_ross says:

    We are getting answers to the Problems on page 4 of 6 Unit 2, lesson1 Velocity, that are close, but off by the decimals …. like problem 2: we got 179.13 and your answer is 177.65. We feel our math is right.
    Problem 5: we got 156.31 and your answer is 156.42.
    Can we send you our work? We are confused. Thank you:)