If the moon were five times more distant from earth than it is now, the gravitational force would decrease.
How are distance and gravitational forces related?
- Inversely related to the square of the distance between the two objects is the gravitational force, which is directly proportional to the masses of the two objects.
- In other words, as objects get heavier, their gravitational pull is stronger; however, as objects get farther apart, their pull is weaker.
- Gravity's pulling power weakens as a pair of objects are separated by more space.
- As one gets farther away from a planet, the gravitational field weakens.
- Distances measured from the Earth's centre have a clear inverse square relationship with the dilution of gravity that occurs as you move away from the planet's surface.
- For, masses [tex]{M_{1},M_{2}}[/tex] , the gravitational constant G, and the increasing distance R ,the gravitational force F is given by,
[tex]F= G\frac{M_{1}M_{2}}{R^{2} }[/tex]
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