Consider the earth following its nearly circular orbit


Consider the earth following its nearly circular orbit (dashed curve) about the sun.(Figure 2) The earth has mass m_earth=5.98*10^24 kg and the sun has mass m_sun=1.99*10^30 kg . They are separated, center to center, by r=93million miles=150million km. 1.What is the size of the gravitational force acting on the earth due to the sun?

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