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ATE: Week 5 (Monday 7th – Friday 11th of October, 2024)

SUBJECT: BASIC SCIENCE


TOPIC: GRAVITY AND THE LAW OF GRAVITY
CLASS: Year 6

Have you ever wondered why, when you throw a ball up, it always comes back down? Or
why we don’t just float away from the ground like astronauts in space?

Today, we are learning about gravity, a powerful force that is always at work around us.
Gravity is the invisible force that pulls things towards the ground and keeps us from
floating away. This lesson will help us understand what gravity is, how it affects us, and
how it keeps planets in place.

What is Gravity?
Gravity is a force that pulls objects toward one another. On Earth, gravity pulls everything
toward the center of the planet. That’s why, when you jump, you come back down instead
of floating away!

Let’s look at an example: if you hold an object in your hand, like a pencil, and let it go,
what happens? It falls to the ground! This is because of gravity, which pulls it down.
Now, let’s look at an image of the moon orbiting Earth. Gravity keeps the moon in orbit
around the Earth. If there were no gravity, the moon would just drift off into space!
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
An English mathematician and physicist named Isaac Newton discovered gravity in the
17th century. It is said that Newton came up with the idea after watching an apple fall
from a tree. He wondered why the apple fell straight down and realized there must be a
force pulling it toward the Earth.

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation explains that every object in the universe pulls
on every other object, and the strength of this pull depends on the size (mass) of the
objects and the distance between them.

Imagine you have two objects, like the Earth and the moon. Earth is much bigger, so it
has a stronger pull. This pull is what keeps the moon from flying off into space. It also
keeps us on the ground.

Also think of two magnets. The closer they are, the stronger they pull towards each other.
Similarly, the Earth pulls objects toward it, but this pull is strongest when objects are closer
to Earth.

The region in which a force acts is called a force field.

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