Sami Yonjan

Physics 1502Q-025L
Electric Force

1.1
1. m1 =Mass of Earth: 5.972 x 1024 kg
m2 =Mass of Moon: 7.348 x 1022 kg
R=Mean Distance between Earth and Moon: 384,400 km= 384400000 m
(
G=Gravitational Constant: 6.674 x 10
−11 m3
kg·s2 )
Gm1 m2
F g = R2
m3
(6.674 x 10
−11
) kg·s2 (5.972 x 10 kg )(7.348 x 10 kg)
24 22

Fg = 2
(384,400,000 m)

Force between Earth and Moon: F g = 1.982 x 1020 N

2. The electric force would between the Earth and the Moon would be smaller due to their
distance. Since they are very close to each other, I would expect both of these objects to
be electrically neutral.

3. The difference between the charge of an object and a mass of an object is that a charge
can either have two forces attraction or repulsion between other charges, while a mass
only has one force of attraction between masses. Mass is the measure of inertia and
charge of an object is the measure of electrical properties of the object.

1.2

Graph is on question 1.5

1.3
The shape of the graph is linear which means that the gravitational force is linear to the
distance between the two particles. This also means that when the distance increases, the
gravitational force decreases.

1.4
Looking at how closely fit the model is to the data, you can see one data point that is
possibly an error, which is point (1, 4.38E-10). Furthermore, when comparing the data points to
the model, I notice that the model is slightly lower in terms of gravitational force. After
analyzing each of the three relationships in the graph, it seems that F​g​ ∝ R​2​.

1.5
Gm1 m2
The relationship that most accurately represents my data values is the F g = R3
.
Gm1 m2
However, the model created for question 1.4 is the most accurate which is F g = R2
.
1.6
Based on the quality of the data, R​1.5​ and R​2.5​ can be excluded due to the units of the
masses and the gravitational constant. It would become quite different if it was raised to any
other value that is not close to 2. Anything that isn’t R​2​ will have the incorrect units.