Science Projects based on Gravity

Science is a collection of natural laws. Things that always happen the same way. there is no change in the process if you do it today, tomorrow or a week from now. A prime example of a natural law is gravity. It is ever present and never changing.

If you throw a ball down from the top of the stairs it will hit the ground. If you throw a ball out of the window, it will still head for the ground. Even if you hoist the ball up into the air standing on the ground, the ball will eventually quit soaring and hit the ground.

Similarly the rain and snow will fall from the skies to the ground. There is no way that the water in the stream near your house will suddenly decide to flow up into the sky like reverse rain. Now you may point out that  water does go up into the sky as water vapour.

That is another natural law. Evaporation is different from gravity. The gravitational pull is active on evaporated water vapour as well. It is because of the Earth’s gravity that the gaseous envelop, that we call our atmosphere, is found around the planet.

Gravity is a great tool to use in a science project. It is present everywhere. The conditions are more or less consistent and you can do very imaginative and interesting experiments based on the principle of gravity. Read this post here to get a few pointer about what else you need to include in your science project.