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You may remember that gravity only
pulls; it never pushes.
Maybe you are wondering why you
don’t see everything being pulled
together. Most things don’t stick to you,
and you can’t feel yourself pulled
toward other people. The reason is that
gravity is a very weak force. We don’t
notice gravity unless something has a
lot of mass.
The Earth is something with a lot of
mass. Earth’s gravity pulls everything
toward it. It pulls on you so hard that
you can only jump a few feet above the
Earth before gravity pulls you back.
When we use the word “down” we
mean “the direction that gravity pulls”.
The more mass two things have the
stronger will be the force of gravity
pulling them together. The farther apart
two things are, the weaker will be the
force of gravity pulling them together.
P – weight of body
P = m • g
Weight being a force, the
SI unit is
Newton.
m – mass of the body
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