Gravity Definition and 1000 Threads

The only plausible solution for this is rotation (maintain 1g acceleration for long time requires insane amount of energy). What kind of problems caused by this? If living habitats rotate, the whole ship will rotate unless the habitats are detached somehow. It affects manuevering. Is this a very...

So I am working on a project where I am attempting to accelerate an object upward Against Gravity but I am having trouble figuring out the math behind the force needed to do this here is what I have come up with so far,my apologies I am not very good with math I found this equation W=m(a+g)y...

Seeking an equation for gravity where gravitational force goes to zero at large distances I realize the Newtonian formula has trouble with this. And I've heard gravity never goes to zero in relativity. So, maybe a quantum gravity one, that isn't too complicated? Thanks!

Hey everyone, lately I read a german newspaper article about an Asteroid which passed Earth in a very small distance (asteroid 2020 QG, distance of closest approach was about 2950 km). Here is another link about this event written in English: Article about 2020 QG (Businessinsider.com). As far...

There are anti-protons and anti-electrons (anti-neutrons, too?), and "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" and, presumably, a "mirror version" of everything in our universe. I don't know a GREAT deal on this subject and I wondered: Is there a "Dark Gravity" that is throwing off our calculations with...

Hi everyone:) I have spend a couple of days trying to teach myself the math of orbital mechanics and have been able to generate a model of the orbital path of Haley's Comet, incorporating realistic distances and periods using Kepler's second law & ellipsoid functions. This is a GIF of the motion...

How does mass determine the bending of space from inside a black hole?REPLY

Hi all, I am looking for a pedagogical (or maybe also historical) paper that describes the attempts of quantizing gravity and the problems that appear along the lines. It is quite interesting to hear from public talks that "when we try to canonically quantize gravity as we did EM we get...

While deriving the formula for the position vector of the center of mass of a system of ##n## particles, we assume some external force ##\vec{F_i}## on each particle and internal forces ##\vec{f_{ij}}## between any two particles. In the derivation, we come to the conclusion that the position...

It takes infinite amount of time to cross the event horizon from an outsider's perspective. But black holes eventually decay from Hawking radiation. So if you wait long enough a black hole won't exist anymore, as it would have decayed into nothing. The in-falling observer witnesses infinite...

Apologies in advance if this has been touched before. If the Earth has 81 times the mass of the Moon, why the Moon has 1/6 of the gravity of the Earth?

Hello all, My second hypothetical question for the day (and last). Suppose you drilled a hole from the surface of the earth, through the Earth's core, and out the other side. The sides of the hole are reinforced preventing any of the hot stuff from escaping the Earth's core, in fact this hole...

Hello all, Suppose you created a 20x20 foot hollow sphere at the most central point of the earth’s core. This sphere is protected from the heat and oxygenated, in fact it’s a perfect 22 degree C inhabitable environment for a human. What kind of gravitational forces would one experience in this...

These are the solution, I'm not understanding something: In the absence of gravity, the total kinetic energy and vertical momentum are conserved). So we have ## \frac{1}{2} m v_0 = \frac{1}{2} M \dot{Y}^2 + \frac{1}{2} m \dot{y}^2 ## ## 0 = m \dot{y} + M \dot{y} ## Ok. But, if the ball goes...

A new preprint establishes that almost all models implementing loop quantum gravity violate the principle of general covariance, and can only satisfy a more limited condition. Is this the huge problem for loop quantum gravity theory that it appears to be? Or is the less strict condition that can...

At the core of the earth, or sun, there is no net force of gravity...every direction is up...does this mean that space is not curved, or more generally, becomes less curved from the surface of an object towards its center?

I am trying to design/build a large self-filling drinking station, aka water bowl, for my goats and cow (see design attached). It's a takeoff of a dog's self-filling water bowl, i.e., uses gravity and vacuum to automatically refill the bowl as the water in the bowl is drank. The rain barrel is...

Is it possible to derive laws of Newtonian gravity from some symmetries?

Why is it that all of the planets in our solar system (to our knowledge) orbit the sun in such a way that they all go around the sun in roughly similar orbital planes? Why don’t we have planets with orbital planes at significantly different angles?

Is the above statement accurate? I am just wondering, aren’t tidal forces also produced by the centrifugal force of a rotating frame? So then what really distinguishes gravity from fictitious forces? (I don’t know any general relativity so if you reference things like the Riemann curvature...

Hi, I don't know if I am in the right part of this forum to ask so if not please move my thread to the appropriate area. I do understand how gravity works on a very basic laymen level like the old Newton apple tree example but beyond that, nothing more.

I have a fundamental question about the pressure and I am not sure if my reasoning is correct. Let's take an example of 7 stones shown below. They don't fall because the center of mass of each stone is falling right under the stone below. If I replace the same thing with a liquid, and we know...

I have started reading about Claudia de Rham's theory of massive gravity (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.de-rham) and how it can explain the mechanism of the expansion of the universe, among other thing. Lots of infos available on the above link. Has anyone found flaws in the theory or...

I don't know what the general opinion will be of this presentation. It seems ok to me but are there any enormous bloopers in it? (If there are, then the level is wrong and I apologise)

In the solutions (page 6, points ii) and iii)), https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2013/assignments/MIT8_04S13_ps1_sol.pdf, it is mentioned that given that the Planck mass is about 20 orders of magnitude larger than a proton and that the Planck length is about 20...

My solutions (attempts) : a> w=v/r | r=6.35x10^6m | therefore V=7.04x10^-5 m/s b> speed of rotation is faster at the equator than the pole as w=v/r. As w remains constant, as r increases towards the pole V has to decrease. c> F = W - R d> Stuck here. I presume that I have to use the equation...

I remember, a few weeks ago, when looking for homework problems I could help with, seeing one as described in the title. I couldn't think of an easy solution and was busy at the time so i made a mental note to think about it later. I finally got around to doing that yesterday, and brushed up on...

Why I think gravity *is* the only force doing work on the rider: 1) The only forces acting on the rider are gravity and the normal force. Broken down into their component vectors, we have: -> The component of the force of gravity moving parallel to the rider's direction of motion -> The normal...

Hi! I'm curious what your take on this is. I'm taking an introduction to U.S. Government course and my professor was discussing the inefficiencies of the public sector; the discussion on politics isn't relevant here but he did make an interesting point about space travel. He argued that the...

A thought occurred to me. According to Einsteins general theory of relativity gravity is not a force. How then does it cause a spring to stretch?

We feel that Earth pull as to the ground but is Earth accelaritng up "in some way" so gravity is also inertial force?? I read that we still don't understand what is gravity...

Hi ... air resistance is the reason that objects of different mass fall to Earth at different speeds. In a vacuum all objects fall to Earth at the same rate regardless of mass. OK - I get it but all the experiments that illustrate this tend to rely on tall buildings or massive vacuum chambers...

The Penrose interpretation postulates that the wave function is real and that there is objective collapse without departing from reality as we know it. It does not make any assumptions; the observations of quantum mechanics and classical mechanics are exactly what they appear to us. "Accepting...

Hi On the Earth , apparent gravity comes from the vector addition of the gravitational force directed towards the centre and the outward centrifugal force. It means that for a pendulum at rest , the direction the bob hangs downwards is not directly towards the centre of the Earth but there is a...

Apologies in advance if this is a naive question. From what I've understood, it's not particularly meaningful to talk about gravity as a force, since it induces the same acceleration (classically speaking) in everything. Whatever device or accelerometer we use, every component of that too will...

I´ ve seen that Newtons law of gravity is considered and used very accurate to predict planet and satellites motion ( eclipses, etc..), but if space time is actually warped as Einstein told, how come Newtons law be accurate when it only depends on the mass and distance of to planets or stars...

HI all! Clearly a noob here. The title says it all. I can't seem to find anything. Thanks for any help, folks.

German V2 rocket engine burn was 70 seconds. Rocket speed about 4000 ft per second. Rocket launched straight up for 3 seconds then turned to a 42 degree angle. There is a lot of counterdicting information online about how high up V2 want and how far it flew but that is not the point. Engine...

According to general relativity, gravity is not a force, however it is referred as one of the four fundamental forces. This seems like a contradiction.

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If we have a conservative vector field, then we can describe it as ##\textbf{F}=\nabla\phi## where ##\phi## is some potential. This here is the derivation of Newtons law of gravity: Where ##\nabla u## is the gravitational potential. If we were to ignore it as a gravitational field, why is it...

Determine the volume of the shaded area around the Y-axis by using the theorem of Pappus Guldinus, where value of R = 143,3 cm. a) Determine the area of the shaded section. b) Determine the center of gravity of the shaded section. c) Detrmine the volume by using the theorem of Pappus Guldinus...

It was just a conceptional question. I thought that the positive work is done while it arises and negative work is done while it falls. For the effect of air resistance, the work done on each case would be less than the work done in absence of air resistance. Is there any other things that I can...

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What gravity is, as pointed out by Newton and Einstein, is still a mystery. Adding to that conundrum is dark energy which continues to inflate the cosmos. Both Newton and Einstein, and every one else as far as I am able to discern, assume that gravity works by drawing massive bodies together...

I made a sample ‘test run’ with one, two, three and four weights of equal mass. Wheel number 1: one weight placed on the rim. Wheel number 2: two equal weights placed opposite to each other at 180 degrees angle, (‘diameter configuration’) Wheel number 3: three equal weights placed at 120 degree...

Neil deGrasse Tyson states that "dark matter exerts gravity according to the same rules that ordinary matters follows" How do we know this? If we have no idea what dark matter is, how can we say how it behaves? How do we know that a single "molecule" of the stuff doesn't weigh as much as the...

It's often said that you don't feel Earth rotation because the gravity acts against the centrifugal force. Of course this is true but also your body is turned around once each 24 hours. So I wonder on a planet which is rotating once each 3 seconds and has same g=9,81: Would you feel the rotation?

To do this I'm given a graph showing gravity reducing non-linearly from 3.7 N/kg at the surface to 0.7 N/kg at 8 x 10^6m. I believe that the equation for a fixed gravitaional pull is E = M x G x H - however with changing gravity as the object rises - how do you calculate this?