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ah, this makes good sense to me... so tell me, do we see the moon having a greater periodic effect on tides than the sun because as the points on the Earth vary frequently with the moon, they experience a greater relative distance change with the moon than with the sun? i thought that while...

thank you very much for the response... but now i must ask, what is the "gradient of gravitational force" ?? why do you cube instead of square?

I'm going nuts trying to figure this out... in textbooks and online, everything i read says that the moon and Earth have a much stronger gravitational force between them than the sun and the earth, and this is why the moon has greater effect on tides than the sun. They all say that this is...