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### Don't heavier objects actually fall faster because they exert their own gravity?

The common understanding is that, setting air resistance aside, all objects dropped to Earth fall at the same rate. This is often demonstrated through the thought experiment of cutting a large object ...
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### If an object fell from the moon [duplicate]

Ignoring the moons gravity, if an object sitting still (relative to the Earth, i.e. not in orbit) was dropped from the moon. How long would it take to hit the Earth?
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### Basic question about law of gravitation [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Radial fall in a Newtonian gravitational field This is how Wikipedia defines Newton's law of Gravitation: Every point mass attracts every single other point mass by a force ...
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### Gravity change as a function of time only [duplicate]

Is it possible to find how gravity changes with time? That is, height is not part of the equation. For example, $g$ can be expressed as a function of height that does not involve time with this ...
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### Distance traveled in a simple two body problem [duplicate]

I'm trying to program an $N$-body simulation and I'd like to be able to test it with a known solution to a simple, two-body problem. I've looked at multiple sources, but I just don't know how to apply ...
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### Position vs Time Function for a Falling Object Without Assumption of Constant Acceleration [duplicate]

If you have an asteroid for example and a planet, isolated from all other gravitational influence and initially at rest with respect to each other, how would you find a position vs time function for ...