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Newtons Law of Gravitation Problems

Tier 1:

1.Two spherical objects have masses of 200 kg and 500 kg. Their centers are separated by a distance of 25 m. Find the
gravitational attraction between them.

2.Two spherical objects have masses of 8000 kg and 1500 kg. Their centers are separated by a distance of 1.5 m. Find the
gravitational attraction between them.

3. Two bodies are 2 m apart. One body has a mass of 80 kg. The second body has a mass of 60 kg. What is the
gravitational force between them?

4. What is the gravitational force between two 800-kg cars that are 5 m apart? (b) What is the gravitational force between
them when they are 50 m apart?

5. Two space capsules, each of mass 1600 kg, are put into orbit 30-m apart, what gravitational force exists between them?

Tier 2
1. Two ships are docked next to each other. Their centers of gravity are 40 m apart. One ship weighs 9.8 X 107 kg.
The other ship weighs 1.96 X 108 kg. what gravitational force exists between them?

2. The mass of the moon is about 7.3 X 1022 kg. The mass of the earth is 6.0 X 1024 kg. If the centers of the two are
3.6 X 108 m apart. What is the gravitational force between them?

3. The mass of an electron is 9 X 10-31 kg. The mass of a proton is 1.7 X x10-27 kg. They are about 1.0 X 10-10 m
apart in a hydrogen atom. What force of gravitation exists between the proton and the electron of the hydrogen
atom?

4. A 1 kg object is located at a distance of 6.4 x106 m from the center of a larger object whose mass is 6.0 x 1024 kg.
What is the size of the force of gravitational attraction?

Tier 3:
1) Two spherical objects have a gravitational force of 3.6x10-4N with one of them having a mass of 8000 kg and a
distance of 1.5m. What is the mass of the second object?
 2) Two spherical objects are a distance of 2.5x103m from each other with one object having a mass of 7.5x105. The
gravitational force is 7.4x10-4N. What is the mass of the second object?

3) Two spherical objects have a gravitational force of 1.9x10-3N. They are 110m apart with one having a mass of
8.1x102kg. What is the mass of the second object?

4) Two spherical objects have equal masses and experience a gravitational force of 85N towards one another. Their
centers are 36 m apart. Determine each of their masses.

Tier 4:
1. Two spherical objects have masses of 3.1 x 105 kg and 6.5 x 103 kg. The gravitational attraction between them is
65 N. How far apart are their centers?

2. Two spherical objects have masses of 8.1 x 102 kg and 4.5 x 108 kg. The gravitational attraction between them is 1.9
x 10-3 N. How far apart are their centers?

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