Why Is It So? — Season 1, Episode 3: 3. Newton's Second Law of Motion – The Elevator Problem
30 min • 3 seasons, 46 episodes
Episode synopsis
F=ma is the standard shorthand for Newton's Second Law. But Professor Miller shows more depth, using two toy cars accelerating toward each other. He also expands F=ma into W=mg for falling bodies on Earth.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Idea of the Center of Gravity
- E2Newton's First Law of Motion-Inertia
- E4Newton's Third Law of Motion – Momentum
- E5Energy and Momentum
- E6Concerning Falling Bodies and Projectiles
- E7The Simple Pendulum and Other Oscillating Things
- E8Adventures with Bernoulli
- E9Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
- E10Atmospheric Pressure – The Properties of Gases
- E11Centrifugal Force and Other Strange Matters
- E12The Strange Behavior of Rolling Things
- E13Archimedes' Principle