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Gravity Force Lab WS Name ______________________________ Date ___________

1. Go to phet.colorado.edu/simulations
2. Select Physics on the sidebar, Motion, then Gravity Force Lab.
3. When the simulation first starts, the objects the humanoids are holding are 38 kg for the blue one,
and 25 kg for the red one. On your paper, write the force in Newtons expressed as scientific
notation (for example, 0.0035 is written as 3.5 X 10-3)

Question 1:
a) What is the size of the force of the red object on the blue object?
b) What is the size of the force of the blue object on the red object?
c) How do you know the size of the force

Increase the size of the red object until it equals the blue object.

Question 2:
a) What is the size of the force of the red object on the blue object?
b) What is the size of the force of the blue object on the red object?
c)
Decrease the size of the red object until it is ½ the mass of the blue object.

Question 3:
a) What is the size of the force of the red object on the blue object?
b) What is the size of the force of the blue object on the red object?

4. Change the size of the red object to 30 kg, the blue to 5 kg. This is the comparative size of the
Earth, in relation to the Moon. What is meant by Comparative Size?

5. Double the size of the Earth and the Moon. How did that change the Forces between them?

6. If you could increase the Earth and the Moon to their actual masses, how would that change the
Forces between them?

7. What general rule can you write to explain the forces between objects of different mass

Increase the blue object’s mass to 50 kg, and the red object’s mass to 30 kg. Now, move the humanoid
holding the red object closer to the blue object.

8. How did the force on the blue object change?

9. How did the force on the red object change?

10. Predict what would happen if either humanoid moved further away from the other object. Test it.
11. Explain what happened.

Conclusion:

Write a general rule for the gravitational force between objects, that explains the effect of
increasing mass, and greater distance. Use drawings, IN ADDITION to words, if that makes your
explanation clearer.

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