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Describe gravitational force in your own words. Which two factors affect the gravitational force between two objects?

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Question :-

Describe gravitational force in your own words. Which two factors affect the gravitational force between two objects?

Answer :-

Gravitational Force :-

  1. It is the attractive force between the two body having some mass.
  2. Example of gravitational force :- attraction between the human and earth . earth pulls the body towards it with the help of this
  3. This force helps the celestial bodies to revolve in there orbits

Factors effecting Gravitational force:-

  1. Mass :- gravitational force directly proportional on the masses of the body between which it is acting
    gravitational \: force ∝m{ \tiny1}m{ \tiny2}
  2. Distance between the masses :- Gravitational force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the masses
    gravitational \: force∝ \frac{1}{ {r}^(2) }

Formula of the Gravitational force :-


F = \frac{G m{ \tiny1}m{ \tiny2} }{ {r}^(2) }

where

  1. F is gravitational force
  2. G is gravitational constant ( universal constant )
  3. m 1 is mass of first body
  4. m2 is mass of second body
  5. r is the distance between the two bodies
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Answer:

Gravitational force is the force that attracts objects towards each other. Two factors that affect the gravitational force between objects are the mass of the two objects and the distance between

Step-by-step explanation:

Gravity is what pulls us towards the Earth if we were to jump into the air, so it is the force that pulls things towards other things. The bigger the objects are the more gravity they have, so a planet has more gravity than say, an apple. Distance between objects also makes their gravity change, so the Earth's pull on the moon is different than the Earth's pull on the sun.

Hopefully this helps- let me know if you have any questions!

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