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Asish Mahapatra
·2010-08-02 04:39:51
i remember the detailed explanation of this being provided in class 9 NCERT or some reference books as to why the moon falls (but actually does not fall) to the earth
t was my doubt till 11 th even then i looked back @ my 9th books and got the answer (atleast to satisfy myself)
dunno whether that will be able to satisfy subho
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Asish Mahapatra
·2010-08-13 18:55:40
basically inertia + force makes sure it does not fall......
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jha1995
·2010-08-18 09:23:36
it is really fascinating
answer it soon
i think no one is able to answer
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qwerty
·2010-08-18 09:30:36
The sun accelerates towards the COM of our solar system ??? the earth does not revolve about the COM of sun , but about the COM of the solar system.
same thing for the sun . Only difference is that since sun's mass being very large, COM of solar system is close to COM of sun .
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Ashish Kothari
·2010-08-19 09:04:59
btw the question has an interesting line :
"NOW we change reference frame to the sun, the only force acting on it is the force of gravitational attraction due to earth and STILL the sun doesnot accelerate towards the electrons!!" hah!
The answer to this question would be the same I believe that we give for Earth-Man problem.
In case of Sun, the gravitational acceleration acting on it is very small however in case of Earth, its the opposite.
Ratio of Earth's mass and sun's mass is 1:100 so if we apply
g= GM/R2
the acceleration in sun's case would be very small!
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AKHIL
·2010-08-19 09:45:59
ya the acc is there but very very minute..............
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Subhomoy Bakshi
·2010-09-02 13:17:44
ya the acc is there but very very minute..............
so does that mean that one day....all the NUclei will fall into the electrons?? ;)