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The planet Jupiter is more than 300 times as massive as
Chapter 29, Problem 96TAD(choose chapter or problem)
The planet Jupiter is more than 300 times as massive as Earth, so it might seem that a body on the surface of Jupiter would weigh 300 times as much as on Earth. But it so happens that a body would weigh scarcely 3 times as much on the surface of Jupiter as on the surface of Earth. Discuss why this is so, using the terms in the equation for gravitational force to guide your thinking.
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The planet Jupiter is more than 300 times as massive as Earth, so it might seem that a body on the surface of Jupiter would weigh 300 times as much as on Earth. But it so happens that a body would weigh scarcely 3 times as much on the surface of Jupiter as on the surface of Earth. Discuss why this is so, using the terms in the equation for gravitational force to guide your thinking.
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According to Newton's law of universal gravitation gravitational force is proportional to the product of the objects's masses and inversely proportional to the distance squared.