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

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

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

point attraction. It results from the spatial gradient of the gravitational potential field. In general relativity, rather than two particles attracting...

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

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

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

radiation) are operating at different gravitational potentials, the oscillator at the higher gravitational potential (farther from the attracting body) will...

velocity between them (special relativity), or a difference in gravitational potential between their locations (general relativity). When unspecified...

A gravitational lens is matter, such as a cluster of galaxies or a point particle, that bends light from a distant source as it travels toward an observer...

(kinetic energy in the case of a gravitational potential well) because it is captured in the local minimum of a potential well. Therefore, a body may not...

of Newton's law of universal gravitation Gravitational potential – Fundamental study of potential theory Gravitational biology – study of the effects...

gravitational potential. When a ball rolls down a hill, it is moving from a higher gravitational potential (higher internal energy thus higher potential for work)...

properties may be derived. Leading examples are the gravitational potential and the electric potential, from which the motion of gravitating or electrically...

The gravity potential is the gravitational potential energy per unit mass. In electrostatics the electric potential is the scalar potential associated...

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

clandestine form of gravitational collapse, the gradual gravitational collapse of interstellar medium into clumps of molecular clouds and potential protostars...

A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational...

deflection is small we can approximate the gravitational potential along the deflected trajectory by the potential along the undeflected trajectory, as in...

the direction of a force acting on it, its potential energy decreases. For example, the gravitational potential energy of a cannonball at the top of a hill...

thermodynamic potentials. This is because the gravitational potential energy belongs to the total energy rather than to thermodynamic potentials such as internal...

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

The effective potential (also known as effective potential energy) combines multiple, perhaps opposing, effects into a single potential. In its basic...

Gravitational microlensing is an astronomical phenomenon caused by the gravitational lens effect. It can be used to detect objects that range from the...

relativity, the metric tensor plays the role of the gravitational potential in the classical theory of gravitation, although the physical content of the associated...

Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and...

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

reservoir the energy per unit volume (the sum of pressure and gravitational potential ρ g h) is the same everywhere.: Example 3.5 and p.116  Bernoulli's...

Liénard–Wiechert potentials describe the classical electromagnetic effect of a moving electric point charge in terms of a vector potential and a scalar potential in...