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aliases: [Newton's law of universal gravitation]
shorthands: {}
created: 2022-12-19 22:19:52
modified: 2022-12-19 22:35:20
Given two particles with positions and and masses and , the gravitational force exerted by particle on particle is:
Where is the vector from to , and .
is the gravitational constant.
Properties
- It can be applied to mass distributions as well
- The direction of the force is always attractive
- The magnitude of the force is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the particles
- The magnitude of the force is proportional to the masses of the particles
- Similar to the Coulomb force