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    Calculating Distance from Earth's Center for 1/10 Gravitational Acceleration

    Wow that's so simple. Now I understand what I was doing wrong. Now that I think about it dividing the gravity by 10 is the same as multiplying it by 10, but instead I worked out Gm/g first and then tried to multiply by 1/10. Also, once I plugged in the number I did take the square root to get...
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    Calculating Distance from Earth's Center for 1/10 Gravitational Acceleration

    Homework Statement What is the distance from the Earth's center to a point outside the Earth where the gravitational acceleration due to the Earth is 1/10 its value at the Earth's surface?Homework Equations FG= GmM/r^2 g= Gm/r^2 G=6.67x10^-11 (Nm^2)/kg^2 m(earth)=5.97x10^24 kg g=9.8m/s^2 The...