I'm doing a science project and i have found out that gravity does afect heigt but i dont quite know how to explain it. I really would like know are there comparisons and/or differences between the two.
2007-01-07 02:44:36 · 15 answers · asked by tubagirl 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Gravity does affect height. One way to show this would be to measure someone, lying down, when they wake up after a good night's sleep. Measure the same person in the evening, standing up. You should find that they are slightly shorter in the evening. The action of gravity compresses the body dowards over the course of the day, but the body is able to relax itself while lying down during the night.
2007-01-07 02:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity And Height
2016-12-18 05:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by bridson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, gravity can affect someone's height. At least, if you were born on the moon, for example, scientists aren't really sure how tall you could get. The moon only has a small fraction of the Earth's gravity. It's approximately 15% of Earth's gravity, plus or minus a few percentage points. So, if you grew up on the moon as a child, you would have all the biological forces that make humans grow to a normal height on Earth, but those same forces would be operating in an environment with lower gravity.
2007-01-07 02:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by GMILF in training 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, gravity does effect one's height. If you make a mark on the wall
just before you go to sleep of the highest point you can barely reach, you
will find that you can easily reach it when you wake up. During the day,
we walk, run, etc. This compacts the spine, slightly, decreasing your
height. Sleep restores the spacing. Over a lifetime, though, you do
shrink a little due to decades of forces. Astronauts come back from
weightlessness just a bit taller. It does not last long.
There is no anti-gravity environment that we know of.
2007-01-07 02:48:49 · answer #4 · answered by Brianna B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity affects ones height as it applies a force to a body which eventually gives an extesion or a compression (like newtons law with extension of elastic objects) in this case we have a compression and depending on the young's modulus of the materials in ones body the extension will take place. There will be not much of a difference though maybe of a millimeter.
2007-01-07 02:53:47 · answer #5 · answered by Olly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity only effects the height of objects that are compressible, such as the human spine. Astronauts are taller in space than on the ground by a few fractions of an inch
2007-01-07 03:33:00 · answer #6 · answered by walter_b_marvin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mass is attracted by Earth. That is our weight. If gravity has to affect your height it has to constrain both ends of a human body and apply a comresive force so that there is deformation. When this force is removed the deformation disappears but some plastic deformation will remain. You can see that we have stepped in to the environs of Elasticity. The problem of gravity is that of statics and not elasticity. Thus to my mind gravity can not alter your height.
2007-01-07 02:54:01 · answer #7 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity is a rigidity (da! ) which stick with inverse sq. regulation it really is F = G m1m2/r^2 the position r is the gap of the stuff from earth or anyother planet or ingredient . so once you throw a ball up you advance R that decreases the rigidity of gravity on it it really is basically no longer significant as how extreme you are able to throw the ball compared to shall we are saying radius of the earth (~6400Km) . Therfore top does result gravity . there is results of Acceleration because of gravity(g) on weight no longer weight on g i wager . once you're taking a weight of merchandise its M cases g also Weight is a rigidity too . So with change in g weight ameliorations too .
2016-12-28 07:33:37 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It affects weight. In zero gravity you don't stretch out, you become weightless.
Gravity only affects large bodies people. And it's even. If you were to be taller, it has nothing to do with the constant gravitational force, it has to do with different gravitational forces applied to your body at different amounts. Such as pulling harder on your head then on your feet, in which case, yes you would get taller, and die similiar to what a black hole might do to you.
2007-01-07 02:50:30 · answer #9 · answered by John R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the morning you are actually taller than later in the day because gravity causes spinal compression progressively throughout the day.
2007-01-07 02:51:20 · answer #10 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋