Non Contact Forces

There are two masses that are 1,000,000 miles apart. One mass is 400,000 kg and the other is 50,000 kg, which mass experiences the greatest amount of gravitational force?

• the 400,000 kg mass

• 50,000 kg mass

• neither mass

• each mass experiences and equal force

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What is the force of gravity?

• pushing force

• pulling force

• force due to charge

• force due to polarity

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What is electric charge?

• pulling force due to mass

• pushing or pulling force due to the charge of objects

• pushing force due to distance

• pulling force due to polarity

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When the distance between 2 charges INCREASES, what happens to the strength of the electrical force?

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• nothing

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When two magnets have the SAME poles facing one another, what will take place?

• attraction

• reduction

• reversal

• repulsion

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When two magnets have OPPOSITE poles facing one another what will happen?

• attraction

• reduction

• reversal

• repulsion

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The amount of mass an object has and the distance between objects are two variables that impact the strength of force with regards to which type of non contact force?

• magnetism

• magnetism

• electric charg

• gravity

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The amount of matter in an object defines:

• weight

• mass

• height

• charge

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The measure of the gravitational pull in N on an object is called:

• mass

• gravity

• weight

• height

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Petey weighs 200 pounds on earth or 880 newtons. After teleporting to the moon Petey steps on a scale and notices that his weight has now:

• increased

• decreased

• stayed the same

• dramatically increased.......

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