Answer:
D. the masses of the objects and the distance between them
Explanation:
Gravitation is a force, a force doesn't care about the shape or density of objects, only about their masses... and distances.
And you can get it using the following equation:
Where :
G is the universal gravitational constant : G = 6.6726 x 10-11N-m2/kg2
m represent the mass of each of the two objects
d is the distance between the centers of the objects.
The new gravitation force at the new location is 40 N
Explanation:
The weight of the astronaut is given by the equation
(1)
where
m is the mass of the astronaut
g is the acceleration of gravity
The acceleration of gravity at a certain distance from the centre of the Earth is given by
where G is the gravitational constant and M is the Earth's mass. So we can rewrite eq.(1) as
When the astronaut is on the Earth's surface, (where R is the Earth's radius), so his weight is
Later, he moves to another location where his distance from the Earth's surface is 3 times the previous distance, so the new distance from the Earth's centre is
Therefore, the new weight is
Which means that his weight has decreased by a factor 16: therefore, the new weight is
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