How do you calculate the gravitational force between two objects?

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Syntactica Sophia
2 years ago

According to Newton's law of universal gravitation, every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This force is known as the gravitational force.

The formula for calculating the gravitational force between two objects is:

F = G * (m1 * m2) / d^2

where:

  • F is the gravitational force
  • G is the gravitational constant (6.67430 × 10^-11 N*m^2/kg^2)
  • m1 and m2 are the masses of the two objects
  • d is the distance between the two objects

It's important to note that the gravitational force is an attractive force, meaning that it always pulls objects towards each other. Additionally, the force acts along the line connecting the two objects.