Two spherical objects have a combined mass of 150 kg. The

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Two spherical objects have a combined mass of 150 kg. The gravitational attraction between them is 8.00 × 10− 6 N when their centers are 20 cm apart. What is the mass of each?

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Problem 25P

Two spherical objects have a combined mass of 150 kg. The gravitational attraction between them is 8.00 × 10− 6 N when their centers are 20 cm apart. What is the mass of each?

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Here we have to find the masses of the two objects.

Let’s take the two masses are  and .

The combined mass is,

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The distance between them is,

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