Newton's Gravitational Law

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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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^-9N

• 2.22x10^-9N

• 2.23x10^-8N

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• 9

• 18

• 72

• 144

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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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Complete the following statement: The farther away two planets are the _______ the gravitational force between them.

• more
• same
• dosen't matter
• less

Which configuration will result in the greatest gravitational force?

• small masses far apart

• large masses far apart

• small masses close together

• large masses close together

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What happens to Gravitational force if I double both of the masses but don't change their distance?

• doubles
• half as big
• 4x bigger
• 4x smaller

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A moon is located at  1 unit out from the planet it orbits. If that moon was orbiting at 2 units out from the planet, how much would the gravitational force on the moon be compared to its distance at 1 unit?

• 1/4
• 1/6
• 2x as much
• 4 times as much

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How is the gravitational force between to objects related to their mass

• They are directly proportional

• They are inversely proportional

• They do not affect each other

• They are equal

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