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Subject:
"Free Astronomy"
Category: Science > Physics Asked by: nasaoleury-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
04 Jan 2006 00:04 PST
Expires: 03 Feb 2006 00:04 PST Question ID: 428836 |
Hi- is there a single answer for these three questions? What is responsible for the dissapation of gravity as you travel away from the center of earth? Do other planets exhibit a center of gravity as dense (compacted)as that of the earth? Is the earth's center of gravity infinite or quantifiable? thanks |
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Subject:
Re: "Free Astronomy"
From: ansel001-ga on 04 Jan 2006 00:41 PST |
I see three questions. 1. What is responsible for the dissapation of gravity as you travel away from the center of earth? The force of gravity varies inversely to the square of the distance from the center of the earth (once you are above the surface). The same would be true for any other planet or object. 2. Do other planets exhibit a center of gravity as dense (compacted)as that of the earth? I don't know what you mean by "center of gravity as dense". If you are referring to what someone would weigh on the surface of the earth as compared to the surface of other planets - on some planets you would weigh more than on the earth and on others, less. 3. Is the earth's center of gravity infinite or quantifiable? The earth's center of gravity is at the center of the earth. The earth's center of gravity is a location, not an amount or intensity. However, the gravitational effects of the earth propagate outward thruout the universe (growing weaker by the relationship described in question 1). There would not be a cutoff point beyond which the earth's gravity did not reach. |
Subject:
Re: "Free Astronomy"
From: qed100-ga on 04 Jan 2006 11:23 PST |
Gravity gets weaker with distance for the same reason that a light source is weaker with distance, and for the same reason that things look smaller with distance. An object has a certain quantity of gravitational "flux", due to its mass content, the more distant you get from it, the less of that flux there is in a volume of space. Think of it as Faraday pictured electric fields. Think of an object, a sphere, with lots of straight spokes extending out of its surface. (Like rays of sunlight.) If you get up close, there are lots of those spokes all crowded together. As you get farther away, the spokes necessarily get less concentrated. There's less flux per unit volume of space. |
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