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(physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface
the more remote the body the less the gravity
gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love
the gravitation between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
How To Use gravitational attraction In A Sentence
- But gravitational attraction depends on distance and mass.
- The hard core of Newtonian physics is comprised of Newton's laws of motion plus his law of gravitational attraction.
- Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
- By collision and gravitational attraction, the larger planetesimals swept up the smaller pieces and became the planets.
- As planetesimals grow still larger, their gravitational attraction increases, allowing them to become even more effective at accreting nearby planetesimals.
- The craft will acquire sufficient velocity to escape the sun's gravitational attraction.
- The gravitational attraction between the two might follow a force law that differs from Newton's law of gravity.
- Once its core reached about 10 Earth masses, gravitational attraction captured the surrounding nebular gas and built up the gas giant planet we observe today.
- As an exercise you might try computing the electrostatic attraction between an electron and a proton and compare it with the gravitational attraction.
- Earlier experiments had compared the Earth's gravitational attraction with the centrifugal force from its own rotation.
