Gravitational Acceleration -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Gravitational Acceleration

The acceleration produced by gravity, commonly denoted g (as a scalar) or g (as a vector). The acceleration produced by a gravitational force F from a body of mass M on a body of mass m located at vector offset r is given by

(1)

where G is the gravitational constant.

Acceleration, Gravitational Field, Gravitational Force, Gravity, Tidal Acceleration


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