Universal Gravitation Check-Point

What is gravitational force?

• a force that attracts any object
• a force that pushes any object
• a force that shrinks any object
• a force that enlarges anyobject

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Which of the following formulas is the correct equation for the law of Universal gravitation?

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NGSS.MS-PS2-5

If I double the mass of one object without changing anything else, What would happen to the gravitational force between that object and any other object?

• Doubles

• Quadruples

• Cut in Half

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

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What happens to Gravitational force if I double both of the masses but don't change their distance?

• doubles

• half as big

• 4 times bigger

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

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

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

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

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Force of gravity is directly proportional to

• Mass
• Weight
• Distance
• Time

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

If I double the distance between two objects, what happens to their gravitational Force?

• 4x bigger
• 4x smaller
• 2x bigger
• 2x smaller

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

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

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?

• 9
• 18
• 72
• 144