Background
This website is dedicated to the process of us as educators improving our theories of learning and development to understanding the role of technology in learning and instruction. Gravity, it brings us down. But do people really know what gravity is and where it is? Is gravity gravity everywhere and play an influence on everything? The Theory of Second Best (#TSB), a group of MAET students at Michigan State University, went on a search to find out what people think about gravity.
Our question
Gravity is the name associated with the reason for "what goes up, must come down," whether it be the baseball hit in the neighborhood sandlot game or the child happily jumping on the backyard mini-trampoline. We all know of the word gravity - it is the thing that causes objects to fall to Earth.
On and near Earth's surface, the value for the acceleration of gravity is approximately 9.8 m/s/s. It is the same acceleration value for all objects, regardless of their mass (and assuming that the only significant force is gravity). Many students of physics progress this far in their understanding of the notion of gravity.
On and near Earth's surface, the value for the acceleration of gravity is approximately 9.8 m/s/s. It is the same acceleration value for all objects, regardless of their mass (and assuming that the only significant force is gravity). Many students of physics progress this far in their understanding of the notion of gravity.