Afat Mammadzadeh

Key words: Gravity, attraction, period, astronomy, Sun, Earth, planet

Afet Jalal Mammadzadeh

THE ROLE OF THE SUBJECT ASTRONOMY IN TEACHING THE TOPIC INTENSITY

OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD

Summary. The law of universal gravitation is taught in the section "Forces of gravity" in the X grade of a comprehensive school. In the methodological literature, this law is taught in several ways [1]. Consider the following three main historical stages in connection with the discovery of the law: 1. The era before Newton. 2. The period of Newton's activity. 3. Post-Newtonian era.

For the first time, elementary ideas about universal gravity were created by the Greek scientists Aristotle, Empidocles, Anaxagoras and Democritus. According to ancient Greek thinkers, objects similar in nature tend to combine. Aristotle explained the phenomenon of objects falling to the Earth from a certain height as follows: all objects tend to move towards the center of the Earth. He considered the Earth to be the center of the Universe [2].