Gravitational Force Lab Objective: Use what you know about forces, motion, patterns, and proportional relationships to design and carry out an investigation using a simulation to determine the relationship between mass, distance, and the strength of a gravitational force The guiding question of this investigation is, how does the gravitational force that exists between two objects relate to their masses and the distance between them? Materials You will use the simulation at the link https:[(phetcoloradoedu[simthtml[gravity-force- labzlatestZgravity-force-lab en.htm| to conduct your investigation and testing. Requirements You will need to design and carry out at least three different experiments using the Gravity Force Lab simulation in order to determine the relationship between mass, distance, and gravitational force. You will need to conduct three different experiments because you will need to be able to answer three specic questions before you will be able to develop an answer to the guiding question: 1. How does changing the mass of the red object (m2) affect the amount of gravitational force? 2. How does changing the mass of the blue object (m1) affect the amount of gravitational force? 3. How does changing the distance between the two objects affect the amount of gravitational force? When you have completed your experiments, you will construct a lab report based on the three experiments you performed. The report should follow the lab report format. Grade Breakdown Methodology of experiments Data Collected and calculations Initial Argument and Argumentation Lab Report Formatting and Citations Abstract Results Gravitational Force as mass of m1 changes 1200 50 45 1000 y = 50x 40 800 35 30 600 25 20 400 y = 1.0433x -0.0035 1.04 2.00 3.13 4.17 5.21 6.26 7.3 8.34 9.39 10.4 11.5 12.5 13.6 14.6 15.6 16.7 17.7 18.8 19.8 20.9 15 200 10 y = 50 5 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mass of m1 (kg) Mass of m2 (kg) Gravitational force (x 10-8N) ......*. Linear (Mass of m1 (kg)) ........ Linear (Gravitational force (x 10-8N)) ......... Linear (Mass of m2 (kg))Gravitational Force as mass of m2 changes 1200 50 45 1000 y = 50x 40 800 35 30 600 25 20.9 18.8 19.8 17.7 20 400 y = 1.0433x - 0.0035 8.34 9.39 10.4 11.5 12.5 13.6 14.6 15.6 16.7 15 200 10 1.04 2.09 3.13 4.17 5.21 6.26 7.3 5 y = 50 0 2 3 4 0 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Mass of m1 (kg) Mass of m2 (kg) Gravitational force (x 10-8N) ......... Linear (Mass of m2 (kg)) ........ Linear (Gravitational force (x 10-8N)) ......... Linear (Mass of m1 (kg))