A Bundle of Phyz: GRAVITY

The bundle opens with The Mechanical Universe's "Kepler's Three Laws" which set the stage for Newton's work on universal gravitation.

"Be Newton for a Day" retraces Newton's fabled derivation of F=GMm/R^2 from geometry, Kepler's Rule, and a few insights of his own.

"The Apple and the Moon" is The Mechanical Universe's telling of how Newton derived and mathematically proved his inverse square law.

"The Laws of Attraction" is a PhET-fueled investigation deeper into the mathematical relationships in universal gravitation.

Next up is Conceptual Physics Alive's "Gravity I" and "Gravity II," Paul Hewitt's instruction on the theory and implications of universal gravitation.

"Worlds of Wonder" uses PhET's "My Solar System" sim (or the Open Stax substitute) to explore orbital mechanics.

The bundle closes with Jim Al-Khalili's two-part BBC documentary, "Gravity and Me," wherein a team of researchers try to find out where in the UK they will be at their lightest and age most slowly. This adventure takes us from Newtonian gravity to Einstein's General Relativity.

A Bundle of Phyz: Gravity at Teachers Pay Teachers

If you prefer the abridged High School Adaptations of The Mechanical Universe episodes, check out Set 2: Gravity.

All resources are available separately. All are print-friendly Google Docs files on Google Drive. All include answer keys.