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What is the acceleration due to gravity at the space station.

Use the dynamic worksheet to practice simplifying expressions with fractional exponents, rewriting them as radicals.

Why do astronauts appear weightless despite being near the Earth?

Basics of gravity and the Law of Universal Gravitation.

This unit is about how things move along a straight line or, more scientifically, how things move in one dimension. Examples of this would be the movement (motion) of cars along a straight road or of trains along straight railway tracks.

In this section, you will:

• Evaluate square roots.
• Use the product rule to simplify square roots.
• Use the quotient rule to simplify square roots.
• Add and subtract square roots.
• Rationalize denominators.
• Use rational roots.

Exercises requiring expressions to be re-written in 'Simple Radical Form'.

Speed necessary for the space station to stay in orbit.

Viewing g as the value of Earth's gravitational field near the surface rather than the acceleration due to gravity near Earth's surface for an object in freefall.

This 32 minute long YouTube video investigates the water contamination problems in Tanzania, with specific focus on Dar Es Salaam.