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  • 21-06-2016
  • Physics
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Which law of motion accounts for the following statement?

"The gravity of the Sun causes the planets to move in a circular path."

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  • 08-10-2018

First, you need forces attracting the Sun and Earth toward each other.  That's described by Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Then you need the description of how that force causes the planet to move in a circular path.  The best choice is Newton's Second law of motion: F = m A .

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