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gravitational force
(redirected from Newton's law of universal gravitation)

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gravitational force [‚grav·ə′tā·shən·əl ′fȯrs]
(mechanics)
The force on a particle due to its gravitational attraction to other particles.


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In his monumental 1916 work 'The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity', Albert Einstein unified his own special theory of relativity and Newton's law of universal gravitation with his crucial insight - the effects of gravity may not be a force, but can be described by the curvature of space and time.
 
 
 
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