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Question 1093498: Any assistance with this one would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Newton’s universal law of gravitation states that every object in the Universe
attracts every other object with a force, F, that is directly proportional to the
product of their masses, 1 m and 2 m , and inversely proportional to the square of
the distance, d, that separates them. If the two objects each lose half of their
mass as the distance between them triples, how would the gravitational
attraction between them change?

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Newton’s universal law of gravitation states that every object in the Universe
attracts every other object with a force, F, that is directly proportional to the
product of their masses, 1 m and 2 m , and inversely proportional to the square of
the distance, d, that separates them. If the two objects each lose half of their
mass as the distance between them triples, how would the gravitational
attraction between them change?
:
One way is to just assign some values to the masses and the distance
m1=10; m2=100; d=10
g = %2810%2A100%29%2F10%5E2
g = 1000/100
g = 10
"If the two objects each lose half of their mass as the distance between them triples, how would the gravitational attraction between them change?
g = %28.5%2810%29+%2A+.5%28100%29%29%2F%283%2A10%29%5E2
g = %285%2A50%29%2F%2830%5E2%29
g = 250%2F900 reduces to 5%2F18
then the relationship to the original g
%285%2F18%29%2F10 = 5%2F180 = 1%2F36
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We can say g is 1/36th