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Unit 1 Lesson 4 Gravity and Motion Down to Earth Copyright ? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company What is gravity? Gravity is a noncontact force of attraction between objects due to their mass. All objects on Earth fall at the same rate once air resistance and other factors are removed. The force of gravity between Earth and an object is equal to the mass of an object m multiplied by a factor due to gravity g. Force = mass × acceleration due to gravity (F = mg), where g is about 9.8 m/s2. Unit 1 Lesson 4 Gravity and Motion What is gravity? What is gravity? What if you drop a heavy object and a light object at the same time? Which would hit the ground first? Some objects can experience a lot of air resistance and fall slowly to the ground. If you take away air resistance, all objects will fall with the same acceleration. When gravity is the only force affecting the fall, a light object and a heavy object will hit the ground at the same time. What is gravity? What is gravity? All matter has mass, so all matter is affected by gravity. All objects experience gravitational attraction to all other objects. Earth and other planets are round because of gravity. Copyright ? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Unit 1 Lesson 4 Gravity and Motion What is gravity? Some objects in space are not round because they are too small for gravity to shape them into a sphere. The paths of the planets, the sun, and our galaxy are determined by gravity. The sun’s gravity is the force that keeps the planets moving in orbit around the sun. Copyright ? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Unit 1 Lesson 4 Gravity and Motion What is gravity? A Weighty Issue Copyright ? Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company What determines the force of gravity? In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton formulated the law of universal gravitation. The law of universal gravitation states that all objects in the universe attract each other through gravitational force. The strength of the