Questions tagged [gravitational-force]
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Earth’s orbit (JPL Horizon system)
I’m was under the impression that over the course of a year (365,25 days) the earth will orbit the solar system’s barycenter in an nearly perfect elliptic orbit with the barycenter as the focus point.
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Does the escape velocity formula take into account how a gravitationally bound object's distance to its primary increases before coming back down?
Confusing title, I know. Imagine a perfect, homogenous sphere with an exact radius of $1,000 \text{km}$ and an exact mass of $8 \times 10^{15} \text{kg} $.
If you use the formula for escape velocity $...
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Joseph Weber's aluminum cylinder
Joseph Weber used a massive aluminum cylinder and measured its deformation, in his attempt to detect gravitational waves. Why did he choose aluminium? Would a solid diamond deform as much as solid ...
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What is the force responsible for the output of whiteholes?
When we think of black holes and big celestial objects we think of objects being pulled towards them with a strong force. And that force turns out to be the gravitational force but then for the theory ...
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Does a planets mass affect its gravitational pull? Let's say earth increased or decreased in mass could that theoretically affect gravity?
This was a random thought I had, and I can't seem to find any answers. I was thinking that if the Earth shrunk that could possibly cause an increase in ...
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Calculating net gravitational force on Uranus
I want to calculate the net/total gravitational force which is being exerted on the planet Uranus. There are many objects in our solar system like the Sun, other planets, moons of other planets, moons ...
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