Circular Motion and Universal Gravitation

The amount of matter in an object

• mass
• weight
• inertia
• gravity

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What states that "every object in the universe attracts every other object"?

• Law of Universal Gravitation
• Newton's First Law of Motion
• My mother
• Inertia & gravity

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Which of the following is Newton's Law on Gravitation?

• F=Gm₁m₂/r
• F = Gm₁m₂/r²
• F = Gm₁m₂/2r
• F = m₁m₂/2r

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Two factors effecting the magnitude of the force of gravity between 2 objects are...

• mass and distance 
• mass and matter
• distance and weight 
• weight and mass

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As distance between two objects increase the pull of gravity 

• Increases
• Decreases
• Stays the same

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As the product of two objects' masses increases, the pull of gravity

• Increases
• Decreases
• Stays the same

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You swing a bucket of water attached to a string in a circle above your head. What keeps the water in the bucket?

• Friction
• Centripetal Force
• Gravity
• Inertia

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As distance separating the objects increases the force

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same

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Bruno the bat flies at a speed of 0.5 m/s in circle of radius 1 m. What is his acceleration?

• 0.25 ms^-2
• 0.5 ms^-2
• 1 ms^-2
• 2 ms^-2

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Who created the Universal Law of Gravitation?

• Copernicus
• Newton
• Kepler
• Galileo

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