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  2. Gravitational time dilation - Wikipedia

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    Gravitational time dilation is a form of time dilation, an actual difference of elapsed time between two events, as measured by observers situated at varying distances from a gravitating mass. The lower the gravitational potential (the closer the clock is to the source of gravitation), the slower time passes, speeding up as the gravitational ...

  3. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    A set of equations describing the trajectories of objects subject to a constant gravitational force under normal Earth-bound conditions.Assuming constant acceleration g due to Earth's gravity, Newton's law of universal gravitation simplifies to F = mg, where F is the force exerted on a mass m by the Earth's gravitational field of strength g.

  4. Gravitational acceleration - Wikipedia

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    The formula is: = where and are any ... free-fall acceleration sustained by the sampling mass ... Earth gravity m/s 2 ft/s 2 Notes Time to fall 100 m and

  5. Newton's laws of motion - Wikipedia

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    At any instant of time, the net force on a body is equal to the body's acceleration multiplied by its mass or, equivalently, the rate at which the body's momentum is changing with time. If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions. [1] [2]

  6. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    Gravity field surrounding Earth from a macroscopic perspective. Newton's law of universal gravitation can be written as a vector equation to account for the direction of the gravitational force as well as its magnitude. In this formula, quantities in bold represent vectors.

  7. List of equations in gravitation - Wikipedia

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    A common misconception occurs between centre of mass and centre of gravity.They are defined in similar ways but are not exactly the same quantity. Centre of mass is the mathematical description of placing all the mass in the region considered to one position, centre of gravity is a real physical quantity, the point of a body where the gravitational force acts.

  8. Equations of motion - Wikipedia

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    There are two main descriptions of motion: dynamics and kinematics.Dynamics is general, since the momenta, forces and energy of the particles are taken into account. In this instance, sometimes the term dynamics refers to the differential equations that the system satisfies (e.g., Newton's second law or Euler–Lagrange equations), and sometimes to the solutions to those equations.

  9. Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon equations - Wikipedia

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    The Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon (MPD) equations for a mass spinning body are + =, + = Here is the proper time along the trajectory, is the body's four-momentum = =, the vector is the four-velocity of some reference point in the body, and the skew-symmetric tensor is the angular momentum