Which has stronger gravity small objects or large ones, or are they the same?

Answer 1

size doesn't matter. It's the mass that counts.

Answer 2

It depends what you mean by: gravity, small, large.

Gravity - the acceleration induced by objects due to the presence of nearby objects. Or do you mean the gravitational force felt by an object on earth?

Small - small radius or light in mass?

Large - large radius or lots of mass?

If you meant the 1st definition of gravity, then I'll point you to the fact that gravity (the acceleration) is proportional to mass, but INVERSELY proportional to radius SQUARED. So, a 100kg object with 1m radius has the same "gravity" as a 25kg object with 0.5m radius, or a 400kg object with 2m radius.

If you meant the 2nd definition, then the gravitational acceleration they experience is the same, the actual amount is dependent on that object's mass (assuming the earth to have constant mass and radius).

Answer 3

The more mass an object has, the stronger its gravity. The sun is very massive compared to Earth, so its gravity is also very large compared to Earth's gravity.

Weight is mass * acceleration due to gravity

On Earth, the acceleration due to gravity is about 9.8 m/s^2. In other places, it is different.

If you are on a planet that has less gravity than Earth (like the moon), you will weigh less than you do on Earth because the moon exerts less gravity. If you were on the sun, you would weigh much more because the sun has more mass than Earth, and it therefore exerts more gravity than Earth does.

Answer 4

the pressure of gravity is given by technique of the fabricated from the 1000's situations the gravitational consistent G divided by technique of the area between them; as a effect, assuming both large planets and the large and small planet are a similar distance aside, the gravitational pressure might want to be more suitable between both large planets; although, the gravitational acceleration of the small planet would properly be more suitable because it has a smaller mass meaning a lot less pressure for an same acceleration

Answer 5

Gravity has little or nothing to do with size; mass is all that matters.
For a spherically-symmetrical object, you may simply assume the mass all concentrated at a point at the center to compute gravitational force for any point beyond its surface.

Two objects of the same mass will exert the SAME gravitational pull, regardless of their sizes, shapes, densities, etc. The smaller object will have a greater density than the larger one (with the same mass), but the gravitational pull is exactly the same (unless you burrow below the surface of one of them!)

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Answer 6

well i remember in middle school we dropped a large rock and a egg off the roof of a 3rd story building....we werent up there of course only our teacher and they landed at the same time on the ground the object lesson being the earths gravity has the same pull on all items regardless of the size

Answer 7

As someone else said, it doesn't really matter what size the object is, but its mass does matter. So you can have two balls of the same size but if one is made of a denser material than the other, then it will have a stronger gravitational field associated with it.

Answer 8

F=ma or Force=mass x acceleration.
gravity can be substituted for acceleration.
F=mg
to get the greatest force with a fixed gravity, the mass determines the force due to gravity. size does not matter; mass does

Answer 9

larger objects have stronger gravity, the sun is large and it's gravity encompasses the solar system, yet the earth's gravity only has the moon
is this what you mean?

Answer 10

LARGE ONES , usually larger objects have more mass, but smaller ones if they have more mass, and "black holes" in astronomy have the most gravity swallowing stars etc

Answer 11

the larger the mass an object has, the larger gravitational pull it has. Hense the earth has a much stronger gravitation pull than a cheese wheel.