I want to try something. I would like to take a large object, say a bowling ball, and see if I can take a much smaller object, say a ball from a pen, and put the pen ball in orbit around the bowling ball. Has anyone tried this with the earth's gravation in the equation?
2007-03-19 12:39:37 · 2 answers · asked by alanone88 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
A similar experiment has been conducted. That's how they determined the universal gravitational constant, G. That's a big name for a small number.
G is approximately 6.672 * 10ֿ¹¹ N m²/kg².
Written out as a decimal, that's
0.00000000006672
How did they come up with such a small number?
http://members.localnet.com/~atheneum/astronomy/simulations/cavendish.html
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2007-03-19 13:58:15 · answer #1 · answered by Boozer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't work. Earth's gravity will swamp all the other forces
2007-03-19 19:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋