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Greensboro Day School Hooke’s Law Orbital Motion Reduced-Gravity Flight Experiment

Jeff Regester Physics. Chris Bernhardt Chemistry. Jason Cheek Mathematics. Melinda Graham Mathematics. Tim Martin Earth Science. Eric Shilling Mathematics. Greensboro Day School Hooke’s Law Orbital Motion Reduced-Gravity Flight Experiment. What Happens When...?.

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Greensboro Day School Hooke’s Law Orbital Motion Reduced-Gravity Flight Experiment

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  1. Jeff Regester Physics Chris Bernhardt Chemistry Jason Cheek Mathematics Melinda Graham Mathematics Tim Martin Earth Science Eric Shilling Mathematics Greensboro Day School Hooke’s Law Orbital Motion Reduced-Gravity Flight Experiment

  2. What Happens When...? Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion: an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion in a straight line with a constant speed... INERTIA

  3. Centripetal Force So, if something moves in a circle, there must be a reason. centripetal = centrum + petere (N. Latin) = center + to seek

  4. What keeps each of these things orbiting? Planets around a star... Moons around a planet... Electrons around a nucleus... Tennis ball around hand... And what shapes are these orbits? In our experiment...

  5. Hooke’s Law F=k·x F = forcex = stretch of the springk = spring constant

  6. Hooke’s Law Orbits Two masses, connected by a spring, will be set spinning by a turntable apparatus. When released, the masses will (in general) oscillate inward and outward as they also orbit the system center of mass.

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK6sYih6vfI

  8. The apparatus under construction

  9. Ellington Field Fiona, our wonderful NASA mentor!

  10. Tours

  11. Final Preparations Test Readiness Review (TRR) glovebox modifications

  12. Flight Day!

  13. FLIGHT 1 ACCELEROMETER DATA two Mars parabolas two Moon parabolas thirty 0-g parabolas...

  14. For more info... Go to the HLOM project website for... • photos and video • raw and analyzed data • numerical models • articles, papers and classroom activities as they are written http://academic.greensboroday.org/~regesterj/data/rgo-HLOM/

  15. Who will get sick on the 0g flight? Results of a student poll prior to flight, as a histogram.

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