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What determines the strength of the gravitational force between two objects?
What determines the strength of the gravitational force between two objects?
- The color of the objects
- The temperature of the objects
- The size of the objects
- The distance between the objects (correct)
What is the universal law of gravitation?
What is the universal law of gravitation?
- The force of gravity is directly proportional to the sum of the masses and inversely proportional to the square root of the distance between them
- The force of gravity is inversely proportional to the distance between the masses and directly proportional to the product of their masses
- The force of gravity is directly proportional to the square of the distance between the masses and inversely proportional to the product of their masses
- The force of gravity is directly proportional to the product of the masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them (correct)
What is the force that pulls objects towards each other?
What is the force that pulls objects towards each other?
- Electromagnetic force
- Nuclear force
- Centripetal force
- Gravitational force (correct)
What did Isaac Newton propose to explain the force of gravity?
What did Isaac Newton propose to explain the force of gravity?
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What is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Earth?
What is the acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Earth?
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What happens to the gravitational force between two objects when the distance between them is doubled?
What happens to the gravitational force between two objects when the distance between them is doubled?
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Which of the following determines the strength of the gravitational force between two objects?
Which of the following determines the strength of the gravitational force between two objects?
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What did Isaac Newton propose to explain the force of gravity?
What did Isaac Newton propose to explain the force of gravity?
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What happens to the gravitational force between two objects when the distance between them is doubled?
What happens to the gravitational force between two objects when the distance between them is doubled?
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