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Exploratorium: Your Weight on Other Worlds

Curated by ACT

From the Exploratorium Museum. Includes an interactive feature in which a visitor enters their weight on earth and has their weight on other planets computed and displayed. Discusses the distinction between mass and weight and describes the relationship between weight, distance and mass. Focus is on Newton's universal law of gravitation.

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Concepts
gravitation, gravity, inverse square law, mass, planets
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Additional Tags
earth, forces, law of gravitation, physics, universal, weigh, exploratorium museum: your weight on other worlds, isaac newton, ms-ps2-4, newton's laws, apple, law of universal gravitation
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice