does gravity taper off or end suddenly when you leave earth. at what rate does this occur?

Question

what if your approaching earth, does gravity increase at any point? perhaps the interior of earths core has more gravity than the surface?

Answer 1

Beyond the surface gravity tapers off a 1/r^2...where r is the distance from the earth's center..

So if you get twice the distance from the center, for ex., gravity is 1/4th as strong.

Most people are unaware that as you go in toward the center of the earth ....gravity tapers off as 1/R....assuming the earth is uniform density....these calculations take into account that there is less mass beneath you as you go down toward the center.

So 1/2 way to the center gravity is 1/2 as strong as at the surface. ....At the center it is zero.

Answer 2

It falls off exponentially as you move away from the source of the gravity:

Force of gravity = G * m1 * m2 / r^2

r^2 is the important factor... it is the distance between the two objects (in this case you and the earth).


The interior of the Earth would have more gravity than the surface (mainly because most of the mass of the Earth is at the center). So yes, the closer you are to the center of the Earth the greater the gravity and it falls of more and more as you leave the Earth.

Answer 3

Gravity increases as you get closer and decreases as you get further (by square of distance between two masses).

Even if you were living in a permanent space village on MARS you would still feel some gravity pull from the earth. And the earth would still feel some gravity pull from you. Everything is always pulling on everything. However you can be sure the earth is pulling us down to it more than we are pulling it up to us because its mass is immense compared to a person's.

Answer 4

gravitational force=mass earth
X mass falling object
XConstant/distance between them to the second power.

G=meXmoXk/(r^2)

As the distance doubles, the force drops by a factor of 4.
However, because the mass of the earth below you is less, the closer you get to the earth score, the less you weigh. This is also countered by the increase in mass above you. When you are at the center of the earths core you are weightless because the gravitational force from mass is equal and opposite in all directions.

Answer 5

definite, all of us could, even yet it is not conceivable that Earth, or any merchandise with mass, can all of sudden lose its gravity. Gravity is a property of count, and can't be separated from it. Gravity is on no account a results of Earth's rotation.

Answer 6

yes