Gravitation
Knowledge you need to have:
Knowledge you need to have:
Knowledge that the horizontal motion and the vertical motion of a projectile are independent of each other.
Knowledge that satellites are in free fall around a planet/star.
Skills you need to develop:
Skills you need to develop:
Description of an experiment to measure the acceleration of a falling object.
Resolution of the initial velocity of a projectile into horizontal and vertical components and their use in calculations.
Use of resolution of vectors, vector addition, and appropriate relationships to solve problems involving projectiles.
Use of Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation to solve problems involving force, masses and their separation.
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