Mistake Master · AP Physics C · Unit 2 · Topic 2.6 · Step-Through Animation
Ten Is Not a Law of Nature
The 10 N/kg you memorized is one reading at one address — Earth’s surface. The real object is a field, g = GM/r², that thins with the square of distance. And inside the planet it obeys a stranger rule: only the mass beneath you counts.
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