What happens to the gravitational force between two objects as the bodies become farther apart from each other?
1 Answer
Mar 3, 2018
It becomes weaker and weaker.
Explanation:
The equation for Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation is
As you can see here, if
or
So, the force is inversely proportional to the square of the radius between the two bodies, and so the gravitational attraction becomes weaker when the distance becomes larger.
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