MDMD(5)----Chap 15 Questions

[Matthew P Wiener]

>MDMD(5)----QUESTIONS
>
>158.7 "The attraction of Mountains" If anyone could explain to a
>mostly (very) lay audience how gravitational mass could in theory
>have altered the Plumb-lines?

That is what gravity does: masses attract masses.  In this case, that
of the mountain and earth on one side, versus just the earth on the
other side, leaving a small net force on any mass caught in between.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)