1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Svetllana [295]
3 years ago
5

A spaceship orbiting earth flies to the moon. How is the gravitational force pulling on the spaceship related to the distance th

at the spaceship is from the earth?
A. As the distance from the earth increases, the gravitational pull on the spaceship would decrease.


B. The gravitational pull of the earth is constant and therefore the gravitational pull on would not change.


C. As the distance from the earth decreases, the gravitational pull on the spaceship would decrease.


D. There is no gravity on the moon and therefore only the earth will exert gravitational force on the spaceship.
Physics
2 answers:
ioda3 years ago
7 0
A is Correct, because as you increase the distance  between the spaceship and Earth the gravitational force would be less and according to Isaac Newton's Gravitational formula F = (G Mm)/r^2, the distance r is in inverse relationship to the Force.  
Butoxors [25]3 years ago
4 0
The correct answer is A
<span />
You might be interested in
Which of the following circuits will stop producing light if one bulb burns out? *
gulaghasi [49]

Answer:

Circuit 1 and Circuit 3

Explanation:

If there is 1 Circuit and it runs out of energy, there's another one to produce the power.

6 0
2 years ago
Complete this sentence. If the mass of object A is __________ than object B, then the weight of object A will be _______________
AfilCa [17]

Answer:

Complete this sentence. If the mass of object A is greater than object B, then the weight of object A will be heavier the weight of object B.

Explanation:

If the mass of Object A is more/greater than object B then it would be "heavier"

4 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Claudia throws a baseball to her dog. Which free-body diagram shows the
chubhunter [2.5K]

Answer:

only the weight of the ball will act on the ball

Explanation: There is no contact force on the ball. Also there is no air resistance on the ball so the friction force on the ball due to air is not shown

6 0
3 years ago
Which simple machine belongs to the inclined plane family
Vlad [161]
The wedge and screw simple machines
3 0
3 years ago
I Need answer ASAP
anzhelika [568]

Answer: Convection and conduction

Tell me that I got it right??

Explanation

Mark me as Brainliest PLEASE I HAVE 0 BRAINLIEST

3 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • Consider 3 polarizers. Polarizer 1 has a vertical transmission axis and polarizer 3 has a horizontal transmission axis. Taken to
    15·1 answer
  • Consider a line of children.
    7·1 answer
  • Which are true of alpha radiation?
    5·1 answer
  • When reading the printout from a laser printer, you are actually looking at an array of tiny dots.
    9·1 answer
  • A triangular plate with base 4 m and height 5 m is submerged vertically in water so that the tip is even with the surface. Expre
    15·2 answers
  • Which are true of gamma radiation?
    15·1 answer
  • Convert time from 12-hour to 24-hour clock. ​
    15·1 answer
  • Where should clouds form and why
    5·1 answer
  • View the graph of sun hours in a city.
    10·1 answer
  • An rv is traveling 60 km/h along a highway at night. a boy sitting near the driver of the rv turns a flashlight on and shines it
    15·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!