Gravitation

Chapter 13 Group 4 Michael Ryan Cadorniga Dave Martin Gerona Kevin Dwight Duroja Rey Millikent N. Alamis Paul Eugene Cagara

Q1. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This is Newtons law of _______.

Ans. Gravitation

Q2. In the equation fg=(Gm1m2)/(r^2). Where fg is the magnitude of the gravitational force on either particle, m1 and m2 are their masses, r is the distance between them and G is a fundamental physical constant called_________

Ans. Gravitational Constant

Q3. A quantity which is the product of the weight mg and the height y above the origin of coordinates, is called the___________.
Ans. gravitational potential energy,

Q4. The speed required for a body to escape completely from a planet.

Ans. Escape speed

Q5. Trajectories that are close on themselves. This orbit are all ellipses or segment of ellipses
Ans. Close Orbit

The longest dimension is the major axis, with half length a; this half-length is called the________.
Ans. semi-major axis.

Q7. The distance of each focus from the center of the ellipse is ea, where e is a dimensionless number between 0 and 1 called the________.

Ans. eccentricity

Q8. Weight of a body on earth is not precisely equal to the earths gravitational attraction.
Ans. True Weight

Q9.The weight of an object in which the gravitational force acting on it is not balanced and it must be opposed by an equal and opposite force.
Ans. Apparent weight

Q10. An object that exerts a gravitational force on other bodies but cannot emit any light of its own.

Ans. Black hole

Q11. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild used Einsteins general theory of relativity to derive an expression for the critical radius now called the____________ Ans.Schwarzschild radius.

Q12 The surface of the sphere with radius Rs (from the formula Rs=(2GM)/(c2) surrounding a black hole is called the
Ans. Event horizon