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GK QUESTION#3037

According to the universal law of gravitation, the gravitational force acting between two bodies depends directly on which of the following?

  1. ADifference of their masses
  2. BSum of their masses
  3. CProduct of their massesCorrect answer
  4. DSquare of their masses
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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.

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