6. Student Contributed Content
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- This is a video that descirbes why astronauts feel weightless in space. After all, aren't they affected by the gravity of the earth, or the moon, or anything else in space? We do a lot of problems about feeling "weightless" in the class and I feel like this video helped me to understand what that actaully means. It also explores some misconseptions about gravity in space. https://youtu.be/n1pzxPoltDkeThis website talks about
- This website discusses apparent weight in terms of elevators. If you scroll to the bottom, there is a really useful pictorial summary of apparent weight in relation to the acceleration of an elevator. http://physics.usask.ca/~kathryn/phys111/apparent_weight.pdf
- SUPER AWESOME and entertaining in-depth look at mass, gravity, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4xYacTu-E