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Elliptical Orbits and Kepler's Laws

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in newtons gravitational law,why is squares of distance taken.

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it is taken because Newton's law follow inverse sqaure rule which states that the intensity of an effect i.e. gravitational force is inversely proportional to the sqaure of the distance.
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