Gravitation Flashcards

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What is Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation?

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All objects attract all other objects through gravity. That attraction is proportional to the masses of the objects, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.

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If the Earth’s mass suddenly increased, with no change in size, how would the value of g change?

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g would be greater

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