influencing the circulation of fluids in multicellular organisms. The gravitational attraction between the original gaseous matter in the universe caused...

Newton's law of universal gravitation says that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is proportional to the...

The gravitational constant (also known as the universal gravitational constant, the Newtonian constant of gravitation, or the Cavendish gravitational constant)...

In classical mechanics, the gravitational potential is a scalar field associating with each point in space the work (energy transferred) per unit mass...

Gravitational waves are waves of the intensity of gravity that are generated by the accelerated masses of binary stars and other motions of gravitating...

Look up gravitation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gravitation is the mass-proportionate force of attraction among matter. Gravitation may also refer...

In physics and general relativity, gravitational redshift (known as Einstein shift in older literature) is the phenomenon that electromagnetic waves or...

The term gravitational shielding refers to a hypothetical process of shielding an object from the influence of a gravitational field. Such processes,...

Gravitation (Japanese: グラビテーション, Hepburn: Gurabitēshon) is a yaoi manga series written and illustrated by Maki Murakami. The story follows the attempts...

is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity...

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...

A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity or simply singularity is a condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that spacetime...

gravitational mass determines the strength of the gravitational field generated by an object. Passive gravitational mass measures the gravitational force...

principles of quantum mechanics. It deals with environments in which neither gravitational nor quantum effects can be ignored, such as in the vicinity of black...

concept of potentiality. Common types of potential energy include the gravitational potential energy of an object, the elastic potential energy of an extended...

theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. The theory of general relativity says that the observed gravitational effect between...

Pioneers of gravitational theory In physics, theories of gravitation postulate mechanisms of interaction governing the movements of bodies with mass. There...

making it essentially impossible to observe directly. Objects whose gravitational fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the...

acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution within Earth) and the centrifugal force (from...

Gravitational collapse is the contraction of an astronomical object due to the influence of its own gravity, which tends to draw matter inward toward...

In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag). This is the...

phenomena in the absence of gravity. General relativity explains the law of gravitation and its relation to the forces of nature. It applies to the cosmological...

Self-gravity is gravitational force exerted by a system, particularly a celestial body or system of bodies, onto itself. At a sufficient mass, this allows...

lower the gravitational potential (the closer the clock is to the source of gravitation), the slower time passes, speeding up as the gravitational potential...

In economics, Reilly's law of retail gravitation is a heuristic developed by William J. Reilly in 1931. According to Reilly's "law," customers are willing...

Einstein also predicted the phenomena of gravitational time dilation, gravitational redshift and gravitational lensing. In 1911, Einstein published another...

Gravitation is a widely adopted textbook on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, written by Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald...

Gravitational energy or gravitational potential energy is the potential energy a massive object has in relation to another massive object due to gravity...

of the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was already known;...

Anti-gravity (also known as non-gravitational field) is a hypothetical phenomenon of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity...