Professor Brian Cox experiences what a world without gravity would be like!
He 'falls' from 15,000 metres on-board a Zero-G flight - a special aircraft, nicknamed the ‘vomit comet’, to experience weightlessness.
This clip is from the series Wonders of the Universe.
Teacher Notes
Student could design an advert for the 'Vomit Comet' using labelled force diagrams to illustrate how it works, and what the passengers would experience.
They could also describe what they think a world without gravity might be like, making justifications for their ideas.
Curriculum Notes
This clip will be relevant for teaching Physics.
This topic appears in OCR, Edexcel, AQA, WJEC KS3, KS4 and GCSE in England and Wales, CCEA GCSE in Northern Ireland and SQA higher in Scotland.
