The Great Gravity Escape
Posted on July 8th, 2019 by Mary Lord
Students in grades 6 to 8 use water balloons and string to understand how the force of gravity between two objects and the velocity of a spacecraft can balance to form an orbit. They see that when the velocity becomes too great for gravity to hold the spacecraft in orbit, the object escapes the orbit and travels further away from the planet.
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Tags: aeronautical engineering, Class Activities, forces and motion, Grades 6-8, Gravity, orbit, Physics, spacecraft, teachengineering, velocity, water balloons
