Gravitational Forces Flashcards
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Gravitational Forces
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Gravitational forces are always attractive, noncontact forces between objects that have mass.
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Attractive
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When a force is attractive, it pulls objects together.
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Orbit
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An orbit is the path that an object in space follows around another object due to gravitational forces between the objects.
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Gravitational Fields
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Gravitational fields are maps of force fields that can be used to predict which gravitational forces will pull objects.
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Weight
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Weight is the amount of gravitational force on an object.
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Mass
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Mass is the amount of matter in an object.
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Force Field
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A model called a force field will describe what the force on an object would be if the object were placed in any location in space.
