how is Newton's third law of motion related to gravitation
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The Third Law says that forces come in pairs. When an object A exerts a force on object B, object B exerts an equal and opposite force on object A. For example, when an object is attracted by the earth's gravitational force, the object attracts the earth with an equal an opposite force.
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According to Newton’s third law of motion, “Every object exerts equal and opposite force on other object but in opposite direction. ” According to Newton’s law of gravitation, “Every mass in the universe attracts the every other mass.” In case of freely falling stone and earth, stone is attracted towards earth means earth attracts the stone but according to Newton’s third law of motion, the stone should also attract the earth and really it is true that stone also attracts the earth with the same force F = m × a but due to very less mass of the stone, the acceleration (a) in its velocity is 9.8 m/s2 and acceleration (a) of earth towards stone is 1.65 × 10-24 m/s2 which is negligible and we cannot feel it