From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!KING@KESTREL
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: tidal force inverse cube law
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4981
Posted: Thu Dec 30 13:43:09 1982
Received: Sat Jan  1 02:07:34 1983

From: Richard M. King 
	Come on!  We don't have to "look up" the dependency of tidal
forces on distance!  The tidal force is the first derivitive of gravity with
distance.  Since gravity is D^-2, the tidal force is D^-3.


						Dick
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