Gravity and Weight Concepts

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According to Newton, the greater the masses of interacting objects, the

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greater the gravitational force between them

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According to Newton, doubling the distance between two interacting objects...

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divides by 4 the gravitational force between them

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What is the force of gravity on a 500 N woman standing on earth's surface?

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500 N

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If the mass of the earth somehow increased with no change in radius, your weight would...

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increase also

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the direction of a gravitational field is

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in the same direction as the gravitational attraction

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An asteroid exerts a 360 N gravitational force on a nearby spacecraft. This force is directed

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toward the asteroid

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An asteroid exerts a 360 N gravitational force on a nearby spacecraft. If the spacecraft moves to a position three times as far from the center of the asteroid, the force will be

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40 N

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Consider two planets in space that gravitationally attract each other. If the masses of both planets are doubled, and the distance between them is also doubled, then the force between them is...

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none of these

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If the radius of the earth is somehow decreased with no change in your mass, your weight would ...

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increase

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If the Earth's mass decreased to one half its original mass with no change in radius then your weight would...

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decrease to 1/2 your original weight