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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Gravity of Earth (redirect from Acceleration rate of 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 within Earth)...
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G-force (redirect from Acceleration tolerance)
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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Standard gravity (redirect from Standard gravitational acceleration)
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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ʻOumuamua (section Non-gravitational acceleration)
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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Weight (section Gravitational definition)
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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Gravity (redirect from Gravitational interaction)
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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Projectile motion (section Acceleration)
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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