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Universal Law of gravitation

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 21mins

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Date

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

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

Force of gravity is inversely proportional to

Mass

Weight

Distance

Time

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

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

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?

144

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

The law of universal gravitation is credited to whom?

Einstein

Galileo

Darwin

Newton

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

10.

Gravity attracts all objects towards one another.

False

True

It depends

11.

What is the gravitational force between two identical 50,000 kg asteroids whose centers of mass are separated by 1000 m?

2500 N

3.3 x 10^-12 N

1.67 x 10^-4 N

1.67 x 10^-7 N

12.

Two spherical objects have masses of 8000 kg and 1500 kg. Their centers are separated by a distance of 1.5 m. Find the gravitational attraction between them

5.4 X 10^-4 N

1.2 X 10⁷ N

3.6 X 10^-4 N

5.33 N

13.

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

same

dosen't matter

less

14.

Gravity is the force objects put on each other because of their ______.

Mass

Friendliness

Acceleration

Speed

15.

Compared to the Gravitational constant G, coulombs constant k is ___________

much larger

much smaller

the same

better

16.

The formula for Coulomb's Law: F= k (q₁ x q₂)/r², the q represents:

electrostatic force

electric charge

distance between charges

Coulomb's constant

17.

What happens to the force between two charged objects if you triple the magnitude of one charge?

1/3X

1/9X

18.

What happens to the force between two charged objects when you double the distance between them?

1/2X

1/4X

19.

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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Universal Law of gravitation

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 21mins

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