NEET Physics Universal Law of Gravitation MCQ Question
Which of the following statements about the Universal Law of Gravitation is correct?
The gravitational force between two masses increases with the square of the distance between them.
Every body attracts every other body with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses.
The gravitational force due to a hollow spherical shell is zero inside the shell.
The gravitational force between two bodies is independent of their masses.
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Detailed Explanation
According to the Universal Law of Gravitation, every body in the universe attracts every other body with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, as stated in the NCERT context.
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