Unome wrote:freed2003 wrote:Why do mountain ranges have stronger gravity then valleys?Since force is proportional to mass but inversely proportional to the square of distance, even if the intervening space when being lifted up is completely filled and as dense as the rest of the Earth (neither of which is the case with mountains) the gravitational force would still be lower than at a lower altitude because the distance term in the gravitational equation will overwhelm the mass term.
It would be simultaneously fantastic and terrible if this question was actually worded like this on an actual test. Different parts of me hope that it both was and wasn't.freed2003 wrote:Correct, I got trolled by this question one time