GEOG 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Atmospheric Pressure, Graviton, International System Of Units

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Force = mass x acceleration // f=ma // si units: newton (kg m s^-2) Gravity is a forces pulling all matter together (which is anything you can physically touch) The more matter, the more gravity so things that have a lot of matter such as planets and moons and stars pull more strongly. Mass is how we measure the amount of matter in something. The more massive something is, the more of a gravitational pull it exerts. In addition to depending on the amount of mass, gravity also depends on how far you are from something. This is why we are stuck to the surface of the earth instead of being pulled o into the sun, which has many more times the gravity of the earth. The concept of weight is a speci c application of the concept of force: Weight (w) is the force on an object to the gravitational acceleration (g):

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