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Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity Instructional VideoMit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity Instructional Video
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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9th - 10th
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English, Arabic
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Mit: Blossoms: Fingerprinting Gravity

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This very interactive video lesson uses the Simple Pendulum experiment to enable students to answer the fundamental question: What is the value of g in my school and in my home? Students will learn to calculate this value by working in groups to make pendulums of different lengths and by learning to count pendulum oscillations. Dr. Lahlouh also encourages students to contact students in other parts of the country or of the world with the goal of constructing a g-map. [22:06] (English Voice-Over)

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g-map, fingerprinting gravity, mit blossoms, pendulum experiment, pendulum

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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