GK QUESTION#3037
According to the universal law of gravitation, the gravitational force acting between two bodies depends directly on which of the following?
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Answer
C. Product of their masses
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For point masses, Newton’s law gives F = Gm1m2/r². At fixed separation the force is directly proportional to the product of the masses. For nonoverlapping spherically symmetric bodies, the same external formula uses their centre-to-centre separation.