Saturday, December 24, 2011

Find magnitude of gravitational force a61.8kg person experience while standing on surface of Earth with mass of 5.98x10^24kg and a radius...

For all of these questions, you need to use the following equation, which will tell you the force of gravity in those situations:


Fg = (Gm1m2)/r^2


where G is the universal gravitational constant, m1 and m2 are the masses of the objects, and r is the distance that separates their centers.


So then you just plug in the numbers you have provided.  I will note that the proper radius of the Earth is 6.37 x 10^6.


Force on Earth: 6.08 x 10^3 Joules


Force on Mars: 2.22 x 10^2 Joules


Force on Pluto: 4.12 x 10^1 Joules

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