Question

When you are standing on Earth, orbiting the Sun, and looking at a broken cell phone on the ground, there are gravitational pulls on the cell phone from you, the Earth, and the Sun. Rank the gravitational forces on the phone from largest to smallest. Assume the Sun is roughly 109 times further away from the phone than you are, and 1028 times more massive than you. Rank the following choices in order from largest gravitational pull on the phone to smallest. To rank items as equivalent, overlap them.
a. Pull phone from you
b. Pull on phone from earth
c. Pull on phone from sun

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is "Option b, c, and a".

Explanation:

Here that the earth pulls on the phone, as it will accelerate towards Earth when we drop it.

We now understand the effects of gravity:

$F \propto M\\\\F\propto \frac{1}{r^2}\\\\or\\\\F \propto \frac{M}{r^2}\\\\Sun (\frac{M}{r^2}) = \frac{10^{28}}{(10^9)^2} = 10^{10}$

The force of the sun is, therefore, $10^{10}$ times greater and the proper sequence, therefore, option steps are:

b. Pull-on phone from earth

c. Pull-on phone from sun

a. Pull phone from you