Create a conversation in which two students greet each other, ask each other about an activity they are engaging in when they are engaging in that activity, and why they are engaging in that particular.

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because the gravitational attraction of our sun for the earth is the centripetal force causing the earth's circular motion around the sun, we can use netwon's law of universal gravitation to find the mass of the sun without ever actually visiting the sun. this is the same technique you would use to determine the mass of cygnus x-1 with a probe. the earth, orbiting the sun, plays the same role as the probe sent to orbit cygnus x-1.

f(force of gravity) = f(centripetal force)

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