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  • Oct 18, 2007, 08:04 PM
    Miia
    Force of Gravity
    A hollow tube is cored out through the center of the Earth to the opposite side. You jump into the tube and begin falling to the earth. When you are half way to the center how would the force of gravity at that point compare to what it was when you were on the surface.. would it be higher, lower, or the same as the surface gravity.
  • Oct 18, 2007, 08:13 PM
    bignaked101
    It would be very much higher, considering that if you are traveling down a tube for that long, the air resistance would break, and you would reach terminal velocity.

    But if you are talking about JUST gravity, then the gravity down there would be MUCH higher considering that it is the core of the earth that pulls us down.
  • Oct 18, 2007, 11:45 PM
    Capuchin
    At the center of the Earth, the gravitational force would be zero. All the mass pulling you down would have the same force as all the mass pulling you up.
  • Oct 19, 2007, 11:32 AM
    bignaked101
    I don't know man I'm not a science geek.. I was just guessing...
  • Oct 19, 2007, 11:38 AM
    Capuchin
    What's geeky about studying science?
  • Oct 19, 2007, 11:50 AM
    bignaked101
    It's just not my cup of tea... Nothing is geeky about it... but if you over do anything you are a geek of that specific subject... I'm not calling you a geek either... I'm just saying if I was a geek about anything it would be surfing that's it...
  • Oct 19, 2007, 12:03 PM
    Capuchin
    Isn't guessing a fairly poor practice on a site where people will be expecting correct answers?

    :)
  • Oct 19, 2007, 04:37 PM
    bignaked101
    The practice of trying to help people out isn't poor at all though.. so Touché

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