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Two students with masses of 40kg and 32 kg are sitting 22 m apart. What is the gravitational force of attraction between them?

User RRStoyanov
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I get 1.76 x 10^-10 Newton.

That's 0.000 000 000 176 Newton

Which is about 0.000 000 000 635 ounce of force pulling them together.

That's why we never notice it.

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