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

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Gravitational Field

A gravitational field is the force field created around massive bodies that causes attraction of other massive bodies. The gravitational acceleration for a particle of mass m feeling a gravitational force F is given by

(1)

which can be written as the gradient of a gravitational potential as

(2)

Gauss's Law, Gravitational Acceleration, Gravitational Acceleration, Gravitational Force, Gravitational Potential Energy, Gravity


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