If you ran faster, you could jump further from the tower before you hit the ground. You would be in orbit and weightless. You would be falling without hitting the ground. Spacesuit and ample breathable air needed, however. The International Space Station, the space shuttle, and satellites are designed to stay in orbit, neither falling to the ground nor shooting off into space. They orbit the Earth about every 90 minutes.
For example the movie Apollo 13 did show us that the astronauts in the capsule were weightless on the way to moon. Or was the movie false? Of course, Apollo fired its engines once and then coasted to the Moon, allowing the astronauts to be weightless on the way, but if you were in some kind of craft that travelled under constant rocket power then you would feel this acceleration as weight.
Well… ISS might be really falling to the Earth, even with her speed, since they have to put her higher by engine… Since the perigee is km mi and her apogee is km mi. So as you said, the perigee is less than the apogee by definition but this is the nature of an elliptical orbit — no thrust has to be applied to maintain this orbital path.
You are in free fall but you only feel weightless, you are not actually weightless. Your weight provides the centripetal force that makes you travel in a circular or elliptical path. You are confusing mass with weight.
Weight is mass subjected to the acceleration of gravity. So objects in orbit fall as the same rate of acceleration due to gravity have no mutual acceleration between themselves. It is an interaction between objects that have mass. The Earth has mass and the astronaut has mass - so they are attracted. We can model this attractive force with the following expression. In this model for the magnitude of the gravitational force, M 1 and m 2 are the masses and r is the distance between the centers of these two masses.
G is the gravitational constant. It has a value of 6. Check this out. If I have something sitting on the ground, it interacts with the Earth. The mass of the Earth is 5. Let me put these values into the gravitational model. Yes, that is not 9. I used rounded values in the calculation so that it is off just a bit. But you get the idea. I am getting off track here.
Doesn't this expression say that the gravitational force gets weaker as you get farther from the Earth? But not by has much as you think. A typical height for an orbiting Space Shuttle is about km above the surface of the Earth. Suppose I have a 75 kg astronaut. What would be the weight gravitational force on the astronaut both on the surface and in orbit?
The only difference will be the distance between the astronaut and the center of the Earth. Enough to call it "weightless"? So, this isn't the correct explanation for "weightlessness". You can probably find some examples of why this isn't the cause of "weightlessness". Here is one that I like. Basically, it is a demonstration of how a suction cup works. I made a video of a mass hanging from a suction dart inside a vacuum bell.
When the air is removed, two things happen. First, the suction cup no longer sucks because they don't really suck anyway. Second, the mass falls. Even though there is essentially no air in the chamber, the mass still falls. Another example is the moon. There is no air on the moon, but astronauts don't float away - even when they jump. Here is John Young's "jump salute". And what about the Earth itself? Why does it orbit the Sun? It orbits because there is a gravitational force between the two objects.
Likewise, scientists use time-variable gravity to study ground water fluctuations , sea ice, sea level rise, deep ocean currents, ocean bottom pressure, and ocean heat flux. Land Snow and Ice Remote Sensing. EO Explorer. At the time of publication, it represented the best available science. Be sure to explore the following activities with a friend or family member:. Hi Bryson!
That's a great math question! You can use a calculator to find that answer, but make sure you DIVIDE your weight by six to find out how much you'd weigh on the moon. We love having you as a Wonder Friend, aiden, and we're so glad that your teacher is a Wonder Friend, too!!
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