Two astronauts are floating in gravitational free space after having lost contact with their spaceship. The…

Two astronauts are floating in gravitational free space after having lost contact with their spaceship. The two will:
  1. Keep floating at the same distance between them
  2. Move towards each other
  3. Move away from each other
  4. Will become stationary

Solution

Gravitational force between them pulls towards each other.

Gravity, also called gravitation, in mechanics, the universal force of attraction acting between all matter. On Earth all bodies have a weight, or downward force of gravity, proportional to their mass, which Earth's mass exerts on them. Gravity is measured by the acceleration that it gives to freely falling objects.

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Asked in: NEET 2017

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