Physclips: Gravity, Newton's laws and the orbits of the planets

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published by the University of New South Wales
written by Joe Wolfe

This web page provides a multimedia introduction to gravity. It includes topics such as forces, acceleration, Newton's laws, orbits, escape velocity, black holes, etc. Short video clips, still images, graphs, and diagrams are integrated with text to promote understanding of important concepts.

This tutorial is part of the PhysClip collection of web-based resources on introductory mechanics, electricity, and magnetism.

https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/gravity.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Classical Mechanics - General - Gravity	- High School - Lower Undergraduate - Informal Education - Upper Undergraduate	- Collection - Instructional Material = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Image/Image Set = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2006 School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Australia
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.
Keywords:: acceleration, black hole, escape velocity, force, gravity, kepler's laws, multimedia, newton's laws, orbit
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created March 12, 2009 by Alea Smith
Record Updated:: February 4, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: February 5, 2008
Other Collections:: The Physics To Go

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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=8674">Wolfe, Joe. Physclips: Gravity, Newton's laws and the orbits of the planets. Sydney: University of New South Wales, February 5, 2008.</a>

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J. Wolfe, (University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006), WWW Document, (https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/gravity.htm).

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J. Wolfe, Physclips: Gravity, Newton's laws and the orbits of the planets (University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006), <https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/gravity.htm>.

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Wolfe, J. (2008, February 5). Physclips: Gravity, Newton's laws and the orbits of the planets. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from University of New South Wales: https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/gravity.htm

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Wolfe, Joe. Physclips: Gravity, Newton's laws and the orbits of the planets. Sydney: University of New South Wales, February 5, 2008. https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/gravity.htm (accessed 16 April 2024).

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Wolfe, Joe. Physclips: Gravity, Newton's laws and the orbits of the planets. Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2006. 5 Feb. 2008. 16 Apr. 2024 <https://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/gravity.htm>.

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