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Imagine tying a string to ball and twirling it around you.how is this similar to the moon orbiting earth?in this example what is providing the canstantly changing inward force?
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Imagine tying a string to ball and twirling it around you.how is this similar to the moon orbiting earth?in this example what is providing the canstantly changing inward force?

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the changing force is you swinging the STRING
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this is similar because it’s on a set path and you are the earth and the gravitational pull is from the earth which the string represents
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