to distinguish "center of gravity" from "center of mass" in most applications, such as engineering and medicine. In a non-uniform field, gravitational...

Newton's law of universal gravitation describes gravity as a force by stating that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a...

center-of-gravity may, in addition, depend upon its orientation in a non-uniform gravitational field. In the latter case, the center-of-gravity will always be...

Barycentric Dynamical Time Centers of gravity in non-uniform fields Center of mass Lagrange point Mass point geometry Roll center Weight distribution "barycentre"...

force and use the terms as synonyms. Screw theory Center of mass Centers of gravity in non-uniform fields "University Physics Volume 1". openstax.org. 19...

The gravity of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution...

gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference (the transmission of centripetal acceleration...

would be in the middle of the line that joins their centers of gravity. Two centuries later, the Roman engineer and architect Vitruvius contended in his De...

and non-uniform composition, which distorts its gravitational field. The theoretical value of gravity can be corrected for altitude and the effects of nearby...

Gravity Probe A (GP-A) was a space-based experiment to test the equivalence principle, a feature of Einstein's theory of relativity. It was performed jointly...

such as in a centrifuge, a rotating space station, or within an accelerating vehicle. When the gravitational field is non-uniform, a body in free fall...

Centers of gravity in non-uniform fields Centimetre of water Central European Journal of Physics Central body Central charge Central field approximation...

The gravity of Mars is a natural phenomenon, due to the law of gravity, or gravitation, by which all things with mass around the planet Mars are brought...

be of infinite size, but its definition is always determined locally by contextual physical conditions. Any two frames may be in relative non-uniform motion...

cluster of objects falling together in an effectively uniform gravitational field, their physics can be described as the physics of that cluster in a space...

of the Moon around the Earth, can be approximated by uniform circular motion. In such cases, the centripetal force is gravity, and by Newton's law of...

convenient description of gravity based on fields—a numerical quantity (a vector in the case of gravitational field) assigned to every point in space indicating...

Gravity Probe B (GP-B) was a satellite-based experiment whose objective was to test two previously-unverified predictions of general relativity: the geodetic...

In physics, curved spacetime is the mathematical model in which, with Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity naturally arises, as opposed to...

electrostatic field potentials, the Einstein field equation for gravitation (Newton's law of gravity is a special case for weak gravitational fields and low...

utilitarian camouflage uniforms for field and battle purposes from World War I (1914–1918) on. Military uniforms in the form of standardised and distinctive...

at rest instead of rolling over the geoid. Earth's gravity acceleration (the vertical derivative of geopotential) is thus non-uniform over the geoid....

{B}}}{B^{2}}}} Guiding center drifts may also result not only from external forces but also from non-uniformities in the magnetic field. It is convenient to...

gravitation in 1666 as an attractive force. Hooke's lecture "On gravity" was at the Royal Society, in London, on 21 March. Borelli's "Theory of the Planets"...

Earth's centre of gravity. The roots of Domingo de Soto's expression uniform difform motion [uniformly accelerated motion] lies in the Oxford Calculators...

repulsion center at the new point. What this means is that in a spacetime with non-vanishing curvature, gravity is modified from Newtonian gravity. At distances...

requires gravity to be geometrical by nature, but in addition it forbids any extra fields, so the metric alone determines all of the effects of gravity. If...

theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748...

are roughly mixed. However, if the plasma is displaced, the non-uniform nature of the field means the ion's larger orbital radius takes them outside the...

such as gravity, are balanced by a pressure-gradient force. In the planetary physics of Earth, the pressure-gradient force prevents gravity from collapsing...