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A plumb bob (a mass m hanging on a string) is deflected from the vertical by an angle θ due to a massive mountain.
A) Make an
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Brett
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A planet has a mass of 7.93 × 1023 kg and a radius of 2.58 × 106 m. (a) What is the acceleration due to gravity on this
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Anonymous
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The acceleration of gravity at the surface of the moon is approximately 1/6 that at the surface of the Earth (9.8m/s). What is
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Ashley
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Consider the earth following its nearly circular orbit about the sun. The earth has mass 5.98*10^24 and the sun has mass
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Eden
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Consider a planet with a uniform density of 3.9 g/cm3 and a radius of 6230 km. What is the gravitational force felt by a 25 -kg
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jake
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A 540 kg satellite orbits at a distance from the Earth's center of about 5.4 Earth radii. What gravitational force does the
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Kathy
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calculate the escape velocity of a satellite from the earth's gravitational field,if the radius of the earth is 6.4×10^6m
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john
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A man has a mass of 70 kg on earth .Calculate its mass and weight on moon
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Avdesh
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What is the ratio of the wight of a man when he is in a tunnel 1000 km below the surface of the Earth to his weight at the
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Nora
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A Titan IV rocket has put your spacecraft in a circular orbit around Earth at an altitude of 230 km. Calculate the force due to
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peter
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Ball A, with mass m is a distance d from ball B, which has a mass of 3m. At which of the following distances is the
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khevna
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A person 12,000 km from the center of earth has a mass of 70 kg and weighs 182 N. What is the acceleration due to gravity at
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Everett
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three point particles are fixed in place in an xy plane. Particle A has mass mA = 3 g, particle B has mass 2.00mA, and particle
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Anonymous
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The moon has a mass of 7.35 E 22 kg and is located 3.84 E 8 meters from the Earth. If Ellen, an earthling, has a mass of 47 kg,
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kelsey
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Some people believe that the Moon controls their activities. The Moon moves from being directly on the opposite side of Earth
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Ray
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Use the period of the earth (2.34 y), its
mean orbital radius (1.496 × 1011 m), and the universal gravitational constant (6.673
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Molly86
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Larry weighs 300 N at the surface of the earth. what is the weight of the earth in the gravitational field of Larry?
-would it
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julie
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Suppose a Astronaut were to travel to a planet whose gravitational attraction has been reduced to 1/10 of that of earth’s
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DAndre
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Two objects attract each other with a gravitational force of 25 newtons from a given distance. If the distance between the two
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cam
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Two masses m1 and m2 exert a gravitational force of 20 N onto each other when they are 4 m apart.
At what distance should they be
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chosen
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A planet has a mass of 5.21x10^23 kg and a radius of 2.77x10^6 m. (a) what is the acceleration of this planet? (b) how much
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Cynthia
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A satellite is put into an orbit at a distance from the center of the Earth equal to twice the distance from the center of the
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Felice
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Let G be the universal gravitational constant and mp be the mass of the planet a satellite is orbiting. Which equation could be
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I am really struggling with these 2 questions. Please help!
1)Mars has a mass of about 6.91 × 1023 kg, and its moon Phobos has a
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Mikayla
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Three uniform spheres of masses m1 = 3.50 kg, m2 = 4.00 kg, and m3 = 6.50 kg are placed at the corners of a right triangle (see
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Josie
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How high does a rocket have to go above the
Earth’s surface so that its weight is reduced to 33.7 % of its weight at the
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Anonymous
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Two balls have their centers 2.0 m apart. One ball has a mass of m1 = 8.3 kg. The other has a mass of m2 = 5.9 kg. What is the
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Danny
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Calculate the force of gravity between Earth and the Sun (the Sun's mass = 2.0×10^30 kg; average Earth-Sun distance =
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jim
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Calculate the force of gravity between a newborn baby (mass = 2.6 kg) and the planet Mars (mass = 6.4 * 10^23 kg) when Mars is
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jim
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As a moon follows its orbit around a planet, the maximum gravitational force exerted on the moon by the planet exceeds the
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Natasha
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Given: G = 6.67259 × 10−11 Nm2/kg2 .
A 602 kg geosynchronous satellite or- bits a planet similar to Earth at a radius 1.98 ×
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Holly
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Let G be the universal gravitational constant and mp be the mass of the planet a satellite is orbiting. Which equation could be
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ur mom
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A communications satellite with a mass of 450 kg is in a circular orbit about the Earth. The radius of the orbit is 2.9×10^4 km
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Cooper
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The acceleration due to gravity at the north pole of Neptune is approximately 10.7 m/s^2. Neptune has mass 10^26kg and radius
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omg
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The gravitational potential difference between the surface of a planet and a point P, 10 m above the
surface, is 8.0 J kg-1.
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Christine
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Let G be the universal gravitational constant and mp be the mass of the planet a satellite is orbiting. Which equation could be
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Let G be the universal gravitational constant and mp be the mass of the planet a satellite is orbiting. Which equation could be
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A hypothetical planet has a radius 1.1 times that of Earth, but has the same mass. What is the acceleration due to gravity near
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sarah
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Let G be the universal gravitational constant and mp be the mass of the planet a satellite is orbiting. Which equation could be
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as a rocket carrying a space probe acceleraes away from earth the fuel is being used up and the rocket's mass becomes less when
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mat
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A hypothetical planet has a radius 3.3 times that of Earth, but has the same mass. What is the acceleration due to gravity near
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Anonymous
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An astronaut on a small planet wishes to measure the local value of g by timing pulses traveling down a wire which has a large
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kelsey
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Let G be the universal gravitational constant and mp be the mass of the planet a satellite is orbiting. Which equation could be
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hi
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Why does Earth exert a stronger gravitational force than the Moon?
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Jennifer
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Two 0.55 kg basketballs, each with a radius of 15 cm, are just touching. Ignore any other gravitational interactions.
(a) How
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Kelly K.
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what information is needed to calculate the gravitational force of an object?
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Read the scenario.
A boulder with a mass of 50 kg is sitting in a backyard. If the boulder were half the mass, what could be said
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A planet has an equatorial radius of 5.31 × 107 m and a mass of 4.64 × 1026 kg. (a) Compute the acceleration of gravity at the
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yasmin
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Calculate the gravitational force between the Sun and Neptune. The mass of the Sun is 1.99×1030 kg. The mass of Neptune is
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Britney
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If a man weighs 600 N on the Earth, what would he weigh on Jupiter, where the free-fall acceleration is 25.9 m/s2?
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charles
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