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The force of gravity

Unlike the two forces that were talking above, the force of gravity provides a clear example of ``action at a distance''. Two objects don't need to be in contact to attract or repel each other. Try having a garlic burger if you want to see how this works.

If we take a banana split of mass m and drop it. It accelerates with an acceleration of g pointing down. It's the only force acting on the banana split so Newton's second law says that the force of gravity is mg pointing down.





Josh Deutsch
Sun Jan 21 23:46:46 PST 1996