9th Class Science Gravitation and Floatation Question Bank 9th CBSE Science Gravitation

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      How does the force of attraction between the two bodies depend upon their masses and distance between them? A student thought that two bricks tied together would fall faster than a single one under the action of gravity. Do you agree with his hypothesis or not? Comment.

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                      The force of attraction between two bodies of masses  and  and separated by distance r is given by                         where, G is the universal constant in nature. This force is known as gravitational force. The gravitational force is directly proportional to the product of the masses of two bodies and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.                                   All bodies fall with the same acceleration due to gravity whatever their masses have.    (1)         So, two bricks tied together will not fall faster than a single bricks under the action of gravity. Hence the hypothesis is not correct. (1) 


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