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Name: How Much is a Mermaid Attracted to a Doughnut?
Category: Circular Motion & Gravity
Date Added: 2017-11-27
Submitter: Flipping Physics

How Much is a Mermaid Attracted to a Doughnut? A practical, everyday example of Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation.
Want Lecture Notes? This is an AP Physics 1 topic.

Content Times:
0:08 Translating the problem
0:42 The Force of Gravity Equation
1:47 Solving the problem
2:24 How to do “times ten to the” on your calculator
2:45 Correcting our mistake
3:42 Visualizing these forces
4:14 Why do the objects not move?
5:36 What if the mermaid and donut were the only two objects in the universe?

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Thank you to Eric York, Scott Carter, Jonathan Everett, and Christopher Becke for being my Quality Control Team for this video.

Thank you to Youssef Nasr for transcribing the English subtitles of this video.



How Much is a Mermaid Attracted to a Doughnut?

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