Question

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Upon which does the amount of gravitational pull between two bodies depend?








A.
the speed by which they travel







B.
the angle of the orbital plane







C.
the mass of the largest body







D.
the distance between the two bodies

Answer 1

@dan815

Answer 2

@dan815
@Phebe
@Preetha
@ParthKohli

Answer 3

im here

Answer 4

do you think you can help.

Answer 5

yess

Answer 6

the mass, by the way this is physics

Answer 7

its out of C and D

Answer 8

\[F _{g}=\frac{ GMm }{ r ^{2} }\] where M and m are mass

Answer 9

oh wait there is distance as well

Answer 10

can you select multiple answers?

Answer 11

There is only one answer to this question.

Answer 12

Gravitational force is dependent upon the mass of the objects and the distance between them. Force drops off as a square of the distance

Answer 13

mass and distance

Answer 14

id go with D because it didnt mass of both bodies in C

Answer 15

If only one can be selected. The question is flawed because it depends on both mass and distance between objects

Answer 16

it didnt say*

Answer 17

But it says in general which does the the amount of gravitational pull between two bodies depends. It does depend on the mass of the largest body

Answer 18

And in many situations the smallest mass can be negligable when the mass is significantly smaller than the larger mass, so I wouldn't say C is incomplete

Answer 19

Well, since it says 'two bodies', you can't assume that we are specifically talking about astral bodies.

(Besides, assuming stuffs is such a bad habit to have.)

Answer 20

@zepp I don't know if you can really make that assumption although I see where you're going. body can just be used generally as any object. planet + human can be a system of two bodies or planet + planet

Answer 21

even a system of star + asteroid (2 cellestial bodies) may only require knowing the mass of the larger body in many cases