Is it true that the Moon attracts the Earth by gravitational force, but still, the Earth does not move towards the Moon?

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Detailed Solution

The above statement is true.
According to Newton’s law, any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other particle with some force, which varies directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Mathematically we can write it as;
The force of gravitation between two objects is given by,

\Rightarrow F \propto \frac{Mm}{r^{2}}

Where

F, G, M, m_{},

and

r

represent the force, universal gravitational constant, the mass of object one, object two and distance, respectively.
The Earth does not move towards the Moon because the acceleration produced in a body is inversely proportional to its mass, and the mass of the Earth is very large; therefore, acceleration becomes almost equal to zero.

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