a pair of plants has the distance between them decreased by a factor of 5-how do i show that the force between them becomes 25 times as strong?
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I mean planets
Gravitational attraction obeys an inverse-square law. If the separation distance goes from x to x/5, the attraction is increased by a factor
[x/(x/5)]^2 = 25
[x/(x/5)]^2 = 25
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