Questions tagged [newtonian-gravity]
This tag is for questions regarding the Newtonian model of gravity in which the force between two objects is given by $~GMm/r^2~.$ It is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy – including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light – attract one another. On Earth, gravity gives weight to physical objects, and the Moon's gravity causes the ocean tides.
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Error concerning projectile motion in respected textbook?
In the textbook Fundamentals of Physics by R. Shankar of Yale Open Courses, appears the following assertion pertaining to a car driving off a cliff, which seems correct:
This is exactly how long it ...
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What are the effect of earth diameter increasing by 2 meters? [closed]
I was wondering what will be effect of if earths radius increases just by 2 meters, in two main categories:
Same weight, i.e earth's mass does not change.
Weight change in proportion to volume change
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How much time does it take for an object to fall from space? [closed]
Let's say there's an object of mass $m$ in space, $h$ meters away from the surface of the Earth. $h$ is large enough that $g$ cannot be assumed to be constant. The acceleration varies according to ...
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How Can there be a Gravitational Potential when there is NO Gravitational Field? [closed]
How does it make any logic that there exist a potential when there is no net field
for example when we have a Hollow Sphere with mass we can find out the the gravitational *potential inside the sphere ...
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Do objects really "fall" at the same rate? [duplicate]
I understand that a hammer and a feather were dropped on the moon and they both landed at the same time. I understand that for all practical intents and purposes all objects do fall at the same rate.
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Gravitational collapse - proof that energy dissipation is required?
As an undergraduate, I took a short course on astrophysics, where I encountered the Jeans mass. This is the critical mass for a spherical cloud of interstellar gas above which the cloud is predicted ...
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Why is pressure in the outermost layer of a star lower than at its center?
I have done the math and I have obtained the hydrostatic pressure in a star is lower at the outermost layer of a star than in its center, where the pressure is actually maximum. Although the equations ...
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Why is work done by force $+mgh$ in the situation of throwing something up?
If there is a particle at point A(at rest) and a force moves it to point B(Above point A vertically)(final velocity = 0 at this point), the work done by gravity is $-mgh$. This I understand as the ...
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Why does an accelerometer read geavity when at rest? [duplicate]
This may sound like a stupid question but why does an accelerometer read 9.8 (gravity) on the vertical axis when I set it down on a table?
I have just finished AP Physics Mechanics and was under the ...
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How important is the fact that as objects get closer to the Earth the force of gravity increases in calculating acceleration? [closed]
I have never seen a formula that seems to account for this.
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What is the relationship between gravitation, centripetal and centrifugal force on the Earth?
I'm trying to analyze a situation wherein a ship is moving across the surface of the earth. I am trying to analyze this situation in a reference frame that is rotating with the earth (NED frame).
I am ...
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Rocket equation non-constant gravity
I am currently trying to teach myself differential equations and wondered about the following problem.
You have an object (a rocket of constant mass $m_r$) and initial velocity $v_0$ that tries to ...
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Trajectories of projectile based on different speeds of projection [duplicate]
So my teacher was teaching gravitation and an interesting fact that he mentioned was the trajectory of a projectile projected from Earth at a speed equal to escape velocity, is parabolic.
Also, he ...
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Where am I wrong in proving that force perpendicular to motion increases speed and kinetic energy? [closed]
Lets think of a helicopter flying at some height $h$. It throws a food packet to a person on the ground from air. Let's neglect the air drag.
The food packet is thrown only with some velocity $v_x$ in ...
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Integrating acceleration + escape velocity over distance [closed]
I am not sure how to title this question so apologies if it's inaccurate.
If I throw an object at thrice the escape velocity of earth, what would be its velocity very far away from earth, (at a ...