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What do we call it when the gravitational forces on an object in space are balanced?
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What is the space around a charged object where electric forces act?
circuit
What is the force that causes things to move in space?
A force can cause an object to move if the amount of the force in the direction of movement is larger than the Frictional force of the object against the object on which it rests, and can overcome its Inertia.
Is it true that a projectile launched into space at any angle will have a constant horizontal velocity?
If space were entirely empty this would be true, but even minute gravitational forces can change the trajectory and velocity of a projectile.
Are gravity and magnetism examples of contact forces?
They're both great examples of NON-contact forces. Two objects do NOT needto be touching in order to be affected by gravitational or magnetic forces.
Does a vacuum space have gravitational force?
No, there is no mass there to have any gravitational force.
What is the name for when the gravitational forces for an object in space are balanced?
The object is said to be weightless. If this occurs between the earth and the moon, the point where this occurs is called the null point.
Balanced and unbalanced forces in space?
In space a balanced force is can be anything without a kinetic effect. A balanced force is gravity because it can have a different effect on one side of an object that the other.
Can forces work in space?
Yes. Forces work in space. Gravitational, mechanical and electrical forces work in space.
How can astronomers tell how much objects in space weigh?
Weight is due to gravitational forces between two objects. A single object inspace without another one reasonably nearby, or even in gravitational free-falltoward another object, is weightless. So you can not weigh an object in space.Determining the mass of objects in space is another matter.
How does a object bend space round it?
An object's ability to bend space correlates directly to the sum of that object gravitational field
What force is causes an object to orbit another object in space?
Gravitational pull
What forces are involved when a rocket travels through space?
the forces are gravitational force and frictional force.
How can an object in space warp space and time if it is essentially weightless and would not therefore create any gravitational influence on it?
Weightless is not the same as massless -- it is an object's mass that warps space (and time) around it, creating a gravitational field.
What is similar between inertial mass and gravitational mass?
Inertial mass is a quantitative measure of an object's resistance to the change of its speed. Gravitational mass is the property of the mass of an object that produces a gravitational field in the space surrounding the object.
Do forces always act on objects?
In theory, no but in real life, there is always some object whose gravitational force acts on the object. Even if you were in the vacuum of outer space, quantum fluctuations would result in pair of matter and anti-matter appearing and disappearing. But during their fleeting existence they would result in tiny, tiny, tiny gravitational forces acting on you.
Where in the universe is there no force?
As a layman my thought is that there is no place anywhere in the universe that is free from force. Even in the remotest reaches of inter-galactic space, an unimpeded object would be experiencing many forces. It's just that the forces would be balanced. The object would not be accelerating and it would not be decelerating.
If the mass of an object in space increases what happen to its gravitational attraction to other objects in space?
That also increases.
