• In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag). This is the...
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    In physics, a gravitational field or gravitational acceleration field is a vector field used to explain the influences that a body extends into the space...
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    of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution within Earth)...
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    equaling the conventional value of gravitational acceleration on Earth, about 9.8 m/s2. More transient acceleration, accompanied with significant jerk...
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  • simply standard gravity and denoted by ɡ0 or ɡn, is the nominal gravitational acceleration of an object in a vacuum near the surface of the Earth. It is...
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    In mechanics, acceleration is the rate of change of the velocity of an object with respect to time. Acceleration is one of several components of kinematics...
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  • relativity, the gravitational force is a fictitious force resulting from the curvature of spacetime, because the gravitational acceleration of a body in...
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    rotation. Because of a planet's rotation around its own axis, the gravitational acceleration is less at the equator than at the poles. In the 17th century...
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    The gravitational constant is an empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of gravitational effects in Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal...
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    Mass (redirect from Gravitational mass)
    acceleration of a body as it passes through a region of space where gravitational fields exist, μ is the gravitational mass (standard gravitational parameter)...
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  • Acceleration due to gravity, acceleration of gravity or gravitational acceleration may refer to: Gravitational acceleration, the acceleration caused by...
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    formed when they pass near the Sun. Further, it exhibited non‑gravitational acceleration, potentially due to outgassing or a push from solar radiation...
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    tide-generating force is the difference in gravitational attraction between different points in a gravitational field, causing bodies to be pulled unevenly...
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    quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar quantity, the magnitude of the gravitational force. Yet others...
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    in gravitational acceleration is about 0.0253 m/s2 (1.6% of the acceleration due to gravity). Because weight is directly dependent upon gravitational acceleration...
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    physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight'), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction...
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    gravitational equivalence of energy and matter, and has been experimentally verified for antihydrogen. However the equivalence of the gravitational acceleration...
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    The surface gravity, g, of an astronomical object is the gravitational acceleration experienced at its surface at the equator, including the effects of...
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    in which photons gain energy when travelling into a gravitational well, is known as a gravitational blueshift (a type of blueshift). The effect was first...
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    presence of the acceleration of gravity g in the periodicity equation (1) for a pendulum means that the local gravitational acceleration of the Earth can...
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    this gravitational force. For a small body, general relativity predicts gravitational effects indistinguishable from the effects of acceleration by the...
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  • radius—especially the dense atmospheric layer at low altitudes—the Earth's gravitational acceleration as a function of altitude can be approximated as constant and...
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  • objects subject to a constant gravitational force under normal Earth-bound conditions. Assuming constant acceleration g due to Earth's gravity, Newton's...
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  • g_{0}} = gravitational acceleration: 9.80665 m/s2 M {\displaystyle M} = molar mass of Earth's air: 0.0289644 kg/mol or, converted to U.S. gravitational foot-pound-second...
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  • })D^{3}}{\nu ^{2}}}\,} for pipes and bluff bodies where: g is gravitational acceleration due to Earth β is the coefficient of volume expansion (equal to...
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  • charge in a gravitational field is an apparent physical paradox in the context of general relativity. A charged particle at rest in a gravitational field,...
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  • charged or polarized ellipsoidal bodies. The gravitational potential (V) at a location is the gravitational potential energy (U) at that location per unit...
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    accurately measuring the local Earth's gravity (the net acceleration combining gravitational and centrifugal effects) with a gravimeter. Thus the mass...
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    this article a homogeneous gravitational acceleration ( g = g 0 ) {\textstyle (g=g_{0})} is assumed. Since there is acceleration only in the vertical direction...
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    an external unbalanced force. Gravitational "weight" is the force created when a mass is acted upon by a gravitational field and the object is not allowed...
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