Gravitational Field

How does the gravitational force between two objects change if the distance between them is halved?

• It doubles

• It quadruples

• It halves

• It remains the same

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What would happen to the gravitational force between two objects if one of their masses doubled?

• The gravitational force would double

• The gravitational force would halve

• The gravitational force would remain unchanged

• The gravitational force would quadruple

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If an object is placed exactly halfway between Earth and the Moon, it would fall toward the

• Earth.

• Moon.

• neither of these

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Rate this statement: No force due to Earth's gravity acts on astronauts inside the orbiting space station.

• always true while in orbit, the astronaut is weightless

• sometimes true while in orbit, depending on the angular speed of the space station

• always false, centripetal force is needed

What happens to the force of gravity between 2 objects if one mass is tripled?

• 1/3F

• 3F

• 4F

• 1/4F

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What happens to the force of gravity between 2 objects if one mass is doubled?

• 1/4F

• 1/2F

• 2F

• 4F

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What happens to the force of gravity between 2 objects if the distance is cut in half?

• 1/4F

• 1/2F

• 2F

• 4F

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What happens to the force of gravity between 2 objects if the distance between them is doubled?

• 1/4F

• 1/2F

• 2F

• 4F

What happens to the force of gravity between 2 objects if one mass is quadrupled and the other mass is tripled and the radius is divided by 3?

• 12F

• 54F

• 207F

• 108F

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Earth's mass is approximately 81 times the mass of the Moon. If Earth exerts a gravitational force of F on the Moon, the magnitude of the gravitational force of the Moon on the Earth is?

• F

• 81/F

• 9F

• 81F

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