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"Consider the Earth following its nearly circular orbit about the sun. The Earth has a mass mearth=5.98x10^24kg and the sun has mass msu=1.99x10^30kg. They are separated, center to center, by r=93 million miles = 150 million km."
What is the size of the gravitational force acting on the Earth due to the sun?
I'm still setting up the problem...
I think I use the equation Fg=G(m1m2 / r2).
r is the distance between the centers of the two objects.
G is the gravitational constant (so I just leave that as G, right?)
But, is the sun or the Earth m1?
What is the size of the gravitational force acting on the Earth due to the sun?
I'm still setting up the problem...
I think I use the equation Fg=G(m1m2 / r2).
r is the distance between the centers of the two objects.
G is the gravitational constant (so I just leave that as G, right?)
But, is the sun or the Earth m1?