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Two spherical objects have a combined mass of 170 kg . The gravitational attraction between them is 7.24×10^−6 N when their centers are 21.0 cm apart. What is the mass of the heavier object? What is the mass of the lighter object?
Given that the two spherical objects have a combined mass of 170kg.
Let be the mass of the heavier object and be the mass of the lighter object.
So
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Gravitational force,
Distance between the centers,
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Gravitational force,
Put (1) in the above equation
Solve the quadratic equation using a calculator
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Put value of in (1)
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