A particle of comet dust with mass m is a distance R from Earth's center and a

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A particle of comet dust with mass m is a distance R from Earth's center and a distance r from the Moon's center. If Earth's mass is ME and the Moon's mass is Mm, what is the sum of the gravitational potential energy of the particle - Earth system and the gravitational potential energy of the particle-Moon system?

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Fundamentals of Physics

ISBN: 978-0471758013

8th Extended edition

Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick

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