Question
Consider the earth following its nearly circular orbit about the sun. The earth has mass 5.98*10^24 and the sun has mass 1.99*10^30. They are separated, center to center, by r=150 million k.
What is the size of the gravitational force acting on the earth due to the sun?
What is the size of the gravitational force acting on the earth due to the sun?
Answers
bobpursley
F=GMsMe/distance^2