Question

What does it mean to say that the force of gravity is proportional to the masses of the bodies, and inversely proportional to the distance between them?

Answer 1

1. According to Newton's law of universal gravitation, every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their distance.
2. $$\begin{gathered} Mathematically,F=G\frac{Mm}{R^2} \\ whereM,maremassesoftwobodies,Ristheseperationbetweenthem,and \\ Gistheuniversalgravitationalcons\tan t. \end{gathered}$$
3. This indicates that if the separation between them is small the attraction force will be large and vice-versa.