Newton's cannonball

Hi kiddo! Have you ever thrown a ball and it goes up and then comes down? Well, Sir Isaac Newton, a really smart man, had an idea about a bigger ball, like a cannonball, being thrown even higher and what would happen if it didn't come back down as fast.

Okay, so let's imagine a super tall mountain that is so high, it goes up to the very top of the sky. Imagine if someone threw a cannonball from the top of the mountain. It would go up, up, and up in the air, right?

Now, what if the cannonball was thrown hard enough that it didn't come down right away? It would just keep going up and up and up until it couldn't go any further. That's because of something called gravity. Gravity is what pulls things back down to Earth.

But, the faster the cannonball goes, the further it can travel upwards before gravity pulls it back down. This is what Sir Isaac Newton discovered. The faster the cannonball goes, the further it can travel before gravity brings it back down.

That's why it's called Newton's Cannonball. It helps us understand how things move and how gravity affects them.

Pretty cool, right?