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Why isn't Earth attracted towards the sun?

Pradeepkumar
in Physics

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We all know that gravitational force is an attractive force.

In that case Earth should have been attracted towards the sun,isn't.Instead it revolves round the sun in a specific orbit.Why??

The earth is attracted towards the sun.

 

The earth is continually falling towards the sun, but it keeps missing or orbiting...

 

That's because the earth has a tangential velocity from the sun so ass the sun accelerates the earth towards it this just has the effect of curving the path of the earth....

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Thank you very much . i was struggling to understand this fact for a long time.now you cleared my doubt.

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