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Mary and John are seated on a bench a distance 2 part. Suddenly, John moves closer to Mary and claims that he has been drawn by the gravitational force. Is John’s claim justifiable? Show quantitatively. (Assume the masses of John and Mary are 67 and 55 respectively, and the coefficient of static friction between John and the bench is 0.15). [4]

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no

gravitational force between them is far smaller than the frictional force between the guy and the bench

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