Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation Formative

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

The Universal Law of Gravitation is credited to whom?

• Einstein

• Galileo

• Darwin

• Newton

Two asteroids exert a gravitational force, F, on each other. Some time later, the asteroids are now three times as far from each other as before. Which of the following represents the gravitational force at this distance?

• F/3

• F/2

• F/6

• F/9

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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

Force of gravity is directly proportional to

• Mass
• Weight
• Distance
• Time

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If Earth's mass was cut in half, what would happen to your mass?

• increase because gravitational force increases
• decrease because gravitational force decreases
• decrease because gravitational force increases
• nothing, mass is not affected by gravitational force

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Double the mass of an object, what happens to the force of attraction?

• 4 times stronger gravity force
• 4 times weaker gravity force
• 2 times weaker gravity force
• 2 times stronger gravity force

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Force of gravity is inversely proportional to

• Mass
• Weight
• Distance
• Time

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As distance separating the objects increases the force

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same

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Gravity attracts all objects towards one another.

• False
• True
• It depends