Which pulls harder gravitationally, the Earth on the Moon, or the Moon on the Earth?

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Which pulls harder gravitationally, the Earth on the Moon, or the Moon on the Earth? Which accelerates more?

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Problem 13Q

Which pulls harder gravitationally, the Earth on the Moon, or the Moon on the Earth? Which accelerates more?

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Gravitational force between two massive objects of mass and is defined as:

Where r is the separation between two objects.

So, the magnitude gravitational of force between earth and moon is same. This means that, the force exerted by earth on moon and the force exerted by moon on earth is same in magnitude but opposite in direction.

So, both forces are same.

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