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suppose you are in a spacecraft traveling from earth to the moon. Will there be a point where the gravitational pull from earth and from the moon are equal? why?

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Answer: there is a point in space between the earth and the moon where the force of gravity on an arbitrary object is equal in magnitude but opposite in direction and any object between the Earth and the Moon will be within the Sun's gravitational field. So there can be no point, where the gravitation field strength is zero

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Answer: There is no net force because the ship is beyond the influence of Earth and the Moon There is no net force because the forces erected by Earth and the Moon balance There is a net force because the force exerted by Earth is smaller than that exerted by the Moon.

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