Rtyh-12
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Recently I've had quite an interesting conversation with my English teacher. Now, I first need to say that she's the best teacher I've ever had. However, nobody's perfect, and she has this firm belief that we never went to the Moon... and slightly more...
Her: We never went to the Moon. Everybody knows that it was the biggest conspiracy in history. I mean, it's not like the Americans don't tend to lie to us. It's physically impossible.
Me thinking: Huh?
Her: Do you think it's like in movies or cartoons, where they hop around?
Me, thinking: Umm, yes?
Her: Of course not, if you let go of a pen on the Moon, it will float away. The Moon has no gravity.
Me, not thinking this time: But the Moon has gravity just like the Earth, only lower.
Her: No it doesn't.
Me: But it has to have. That's why tides are here.
Her: No.
OK, that was confusing... no explanation or anything. Anyway, I would like to disprove such a belief and I think that math and physics are the key to this problem. I haven't studied this in school yet, so I have searched a little on Google, but different sites gave me different answers. So I came to the best site to discuss something like this Could someone please tell me the formula for the gravitational acceleration, plus all the parameters for the surface of the Moon? If this doesn't convince her that the Moon does have gravity, then I give up. But I would still like to try.
Thanks in advance!
Her: We never went to the Moon. Everybody knows that it was the biggest conspiracy in history. I mean, it's not like the Americans don't tend to lie to us. It's physically impossible.
Me thinking: Huh?
Her: Do you think it's like in movies or cartoons, where they hop around?
Me, thinking: Umm, yes?
Her: Of course not, if you let go of a pen on the Moon, it will float away. The Moon has no gravity.
Me, not thinking this time: But the Moon has gravity just like the Earth, only lower.
Her: No it doesn't.
Me: But it has to have. That's why tides are here.
Her: No.
OK, that was confusing... no explanation or anything. Anyway, I would like to disprove such a belief and I think that math and physics are the key to this problem. I haven't studied this in school yet, so I have searched a little on Google, but different sites gave me different answers. So I came to the best site to discuss something like this Could someone please tell me the formula for the gravitational acceleration, plus all the parameters for the surface of the Moon? If this doesn't convince her that the Moon does have gravity, then I give up. But I would still like to try.
Thanks in advance!