What is the centripetal acceleration of the moon around the earth, realizing that the gravitational force is the centripetal force?

Explanation:

As we know that moon is revolving around the Earth in circular path

Here the centripetal force on the moon is due to Earth and always towards the position of the Earth

This force is given as

here we know that

= mass of Earth

= mass of moon

= distance between the center of moon and Earth

so we know by Newton's II law that

now we have

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