Orbit+Satellites

An Apple Falls, But Not the Moon. Why?
https://youtu.be/nh26C519wuo

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/how-orbits-work/en/#

Cannonball Simulation (Tell what is happening) []

Newtons Cannon CER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51mxBkwwSB8

More info https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/how-orbits-work/en/

How do things orbit? 1 Orbiting objects simply fall around the Earth. 2 The motion of orbiting objects is only affected by gravity. 3 In a vacuum the only force on an already moving projectile is gravity. 4 A cannonball fired from a very high mountain will follow a curved path to the ground due to the pull of gravity. 5 If the horizontal speed is increases with each firing, the curve of the cannonball's path would decrease each time. 6 Each fired ball would go father as the curve it travels flattens. 7 When the curve flattens enough to become equal to or less than the curved surface of the Earth, the ball will no longer hit the ground. 8 Orbital speed is the horizontal speed necessary for a projectile to no longer hit the Earth.

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-is-orbit-58.html

Simulation and Reading [|https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/how-orbits-work/en/#] Series of Video (Simple math exposure too)

Freefall [] Gravity is the only force on an object in freefall.

Elevator [] Forces in Freefall

Sideways Drop - Projectile Motion – Trajectory [] Vertical and horizontal motion are independent

Weightless, not “g-less” [] Gravity exists in space, but falling objects don’t experience it

Satellite [] Newton’s Cannon