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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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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Force of gravity is inversely 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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Calculate the gravitational force between two objects when they are 0.750m apart. Each object has a mass of 5.00kg.

• 2.96x10^-7N

• 3.00x10^-6N

• 2.22x10^-9N

• 2.23x10^-8N

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Two objects are attracted to each other with 36 N of gravitational force.
What would the force between them be if the distance between them were doubled?

• 9
• 18
• 72
• 144

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What is the Universal law of gravitation equation? 

• G=F ⋅ m⋅m2/r²
• F=G ⋅ m⋅m₂/(r)²
• F=G ⋅ r²/m⋅m₂
• G=F ⋅ r²/m⋅m₂

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The law of universal gravitation is credited to whom?

• Einstein
• Galileo
• Darwin
• Newton

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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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Gravity attracts all objects towards one another.

• False
• True
• It depends

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