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What is gravity?
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Gives weight to objects and mass, and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped.
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What is the center of gravity?
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The point around which the weight of an object is evenly distributed. For an object to stand, its center of gravity must be directly above some part of the base?
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What is a base?
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The bottom of a standing object. It includes any area between supports. For example, the base of a chair is a square that includes all the area within the four legs.
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What is Newton's 3rd law?
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To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction: or the forces of two bodies on each other are always equal and are directed in opposite directions.
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What is Newton's law of universal gravitation?
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F= mg
Force = mass x gravity |
