In physics on November 21, we played with toys. But before that we checked the Spring homework assignment assigned on Friday as well as watched Homer Simpson eat potato chips in space. We learned why people experience weightlessness, or rather microgravity, in space. This "microgravity" is experienced during free fall because the velocity of an object falling is equal to the acceleration due to gravity. That is why satellites orbit earth, they fall around it. What we did with the children's toys is prepared a presentation to explain how they operate and how Newton's three laws apply to them. In our class period, we had a slinky race down the stairs although the stairs were too wide for the slinky to move down.
-Ethan Leonow
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