by the gravitational force, which is equal to the change in the kinetic energies of the objects as they fall towards each other. Gravitational potential...

potential energy; work of the gravitational force is called gravitational potential energy; work of the Coulomb force is called electric potential energy; work...

gravitational binding energy of a system is the minimum energy which must be added to it in order for the system to cease being in a gravitationally bound...

that gravitational waves result from his general theory of relativity as ripples in spacetime. Gravitational waves transport energy as gravitational radiation...

effects. Gravitational energy, or gravitational potential energy, is the potential energy a massive object has because it is within a gravitational field...

resources about Gravitational stress-energy tensor The stress–energy tensor, sometimes called the stress–energy–momentum tensor or the energy–momentum tensor...

transfer. It showed that the gravitational potential energy lost by the weight in descending was equal to the internal energy gained by the water through...

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...

events might happen. Gravitational waves can be detected indirectly – by observing celestial phenomena caused by gravitational waves – or more directly...

physics. Gravitation, also known as gravitational attraction, is the mutual attraction between all masses in the universe. Gravity is the gravitational attraction...

that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery. Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential...

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

positive energy of a star's mass and the negative energy of its gravitational field together may have zero total energy, conservation of energy would not...

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

opposite effect, in which photons gain energy when travelling into a gravitational well, is known as a gravitational blueshift (a type of blueshift). The...

polarized ellipsoidal bodies. The gravitational potential (V) at a location is the gravitational potential energy (U) at that location per unit mass:...

must contain no energy. But the gravitational field can do work, so we must expect the gravitational field itself to possess energy, and it does. However...

The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is...

universal gravitation thus takes the form: F = G m 1 m 2 r 2 , {\displaystyle F=G{\frac {m_{1}m_{2}}{r^{2}}},} where F is the gravitational force acting...

"electro-radiant energy" has also been used. The term "radiant energy" also applies to gravitational radiation. For example, the first gravitational waves ever...

indistinguishable from gravitation, because a massless spin-2 field would couple to the stress–energy tensor in the same way gravitational interactions do....

"actual". Energy occurs in many forms, including chemical energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic radiation, gravitational energy, electric energy, elastic...

[1] Gravitational energy – energy from gravitational fields Ionization energy – energy that binds an electron to its atom or molecule Kinetic energy – (≥0)...

as stars or black holes. As a clandestine form of gravitational collapse, the gradual gravitational collapse of interstellar medium into clumps of molecular...

principle requires that the gravitational force field, the Christoffel symbols, vanish locally in some frames. If gravitational energy is a function of its force...

Exertion Fermi energy - Forms of energy - Fuel - Fusion power Geothermal energy - Gravitational energy - Gravitational potential History of energy - Hydroelectricity...

that stores gravitational energy, the energy stored in an object resulting from a change in height due to gravity, also called potential energy. A gravity...

the gravitational constant. Close to the Earth's surface, the gravitational field is approximately constant, and the gravitational potential energy of...

salvage conservation of energy by introducing a specific global gravitational potential energy that cancels out mass-energy changes triggered by spacetime...

would produce a repulsive gravitational field. In particular, Sir Hermann Bondi proposed in 1957 that negative gravitational mass, combined with negative...