Saturday, November 9, 2013

Mars has a mass of about 6.39 x 10^23 kg, and its moon Phobos has a mass of about 9.8 x 10^15 kg.If the magnitude of the gravitational force...

By Newton's law of gravitation, the force ,F of attraction between  mars of mass M and its  satellite Phobos of mass m is given by:


F = G Mm/d^2 ...........(1), where G is the universal gravitational constant and d is distance between Mars and its satellite Phobos.


We can arrive at the value of d from (1). Or rewriting (1) to get d, we get:


d =  sqrt{GM/Mm/F} = sqrt{(6.673 x 10^-11 N)(6.39 x 10^23 kg)*(9.8 x 10^15 kg.)/(4.94*10^15 N)}


= 9.1973*10^6 meters.

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