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Gravitational Force Practice Problems

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1. You’re sitting next to your friend in class. If you both have a mass of 60 kg, and you are 0.74 m away from
each other, what is the magnitude of the gravitational force attracting you to your friend? (4.38 x 10-7 N)

2. Two identical spheres are sitting at rest on a table. If the distance between the spheres were suddenly
doubled, what would happen to the magnitude of the gravitational force between them?

3. Two identical spheres are sitting at rest on a table. If the mass of one of the spheres suddenly doubled, what
would happen to the magnitude of the gravitational force between them?

4. The earth has a mass of 5.97 x 1024 kg. The mass of the moon is 7.35 x 1022 kg. The average distance
between them is 384,400,000 m. What is the magnitude of the gravitational force that the moon exerts on
the earth? (1.98 x 1020 N)

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5. In a car race, the force of attraction between the 1st and 2nd place cars is 3.0349 x 10-7 N. If the 1st place car
has a mass of 700 kg and the 2nd place car has a mass of 650 kg, then what is the distance between the two
cars? (10 m)

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6. If the gravitational force between two objects of equal mass is 2.30x10 N when the objects are 10.0 m
apart, what is the mass of each object? (185.70 kg)

7. The gravitational force is directly proportional to what?

8. The gravitational force is inversely proportional to what?

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