Question

4. Read the given passage and answer the below questions:

According to Newton’s law of gravitation, every object attracts every other object.

Thus, if the earth attracts an apple towards itself, the apple also attracts the earth

towards itself with the same force.

The gravitational force due to earth also acts on the moon because of which it revolves

around the earth. Similar situation exists for the artificial satellites orbiting the earth. The

moon and the artificial satellites orbit the earth. The earth attracts them towards itself but

unlike the falling apple, they do not fall on the earth. This is because of the velocity of the

moon and the satellites along their orbits. If this velocity was not there, they would have

fallen on the earth.

Questions:

a. Why does the apple fall towards the earth, but the earth does not move towards the apple?

b. Why do the moon and artificial satellites do not fall on the earth, unlike the falling apple?

c. Why do we say that the moon and the artificial satellites are in free fall?​

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