Gravity Home Page

Depending on the age of your child/ren, some or even all links and including up to link 9 could be revision.

All are links:


  1. First question for parents

  2. What is gravity?  

  3. Simply gravity 

  4. Gravity video

  5. Mass is not easy to understand.

  6. Gravity is a force  

  7. Gravity wells    Visual, imaginative more than essential.

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Einstein's "happiest thought" involved imagining a person falling from a roof, realizing they would feel weightless, leading to the concept of the equivalence principle and his General Theory of Relativity. source

Just as well we don't need to teach 
the concept of the equivalence principle and his General Theory of Relativity! 


15   Are magnetism and gravity the same?

No, magnetism and gravity are not the same; they are distinct forces, with gravity always being attractive and magnetism capable of both attraction and repulsion, and magnetism only affecting certain materials, unlike gravity which affects all objects with mass. source


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