space around itself. A gravitational field is used to explain gravitational phenomena, such as the gravitational force field exerted on another massive...

Also, it can be seen that F12 = −F21. The gravitational field is a vector field that describes the gravitational force that would be applied on an object...

observed gravitational acceleration at a location Gravity of Mars – Gravitational force exerted by the planet Mars Newton's law of universal gravitation – Classical...

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

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

space around itself. A gravitational field is used to explain gravitational phenomena, such as the gravitational force field exerted on another massive...

gravitational force experienced by a particle is equal to the mass of the particle multiplied by the gravitational field at that point. Gravitational...

bookkeeping of all these gravitational forces. This quantity, the gravitational field, gave at each point in space the total gravitational acceleration which...

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

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

gravitation can be written as the theory of a scalar field, Φ, which is the gravitational potential in joules per kilogram of the gravitational field...

magnetostatic fields generated by uniformly charged or polarized ellipsoidal bodies. The gravitational potential (V) at a location is the gravitational potential...

making it essentially impossible to observe directly. Objects whose gravitational fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th...

effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and an effect of gravity on time known as gravitational time dilation. Many of these...

measurements at greater distances from the Earth, or a larger gravitational source. Gravitational time dilation was first described by Albert Einstein in 1907...

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...

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

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...

along the line from M to m, and G is Newton's gravitational constant. Therefore, the gravitational field of M is g ( r ) = F ( r ) m = − G M r 2 r ^ ....

described by a vector field.: 469–70  The electric field acts between two charges similarly to the way that the gravitational field acts between two masses...

will have both gained the same amount of gravitational potential energy. This is because a gravitational field is conservative. M. C. Escher's lithograph...

and the propagation of light, and include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, the Shapiro time delay...

object's gravitational potential energy are its height relative to some reference point, its mass, and the strength of the gravitational field it is in...

when the gravitational field is weak. The usage of linearized gravity is integral to the study of gravitational waves and weak-field gravitational lensing...

astronomical tests (gravitational redshift and gravitational lensing, for example) been observed to interact with the gravitational field of ordinary matter...

body where the gravitational force acts. They are equal if and only if the external gravitational field is uniform. In the weak-field and slow motion...

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

in a gravitational field is an apparent physical paradox in the context of general relativity. A charged particle at rest in a gravitational field, such...

as gravitational lenses, a claim confirmed in 1979 by observation of the Twin QSO SBS 0957+561. Unlike an optical lens, a point-like gravitational lens...

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...