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  2. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them: [11] Diagram of two masses attracting one another = where F is the force between the masses; G is the Newtonian constant of gravitation (6.674 × 10 −11 m 3 ⋅kg −1 ⋅s −2);

  3. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    During the first 0.05 s the ball drops one unit of distance (about 12 mm), by 0.10 s it has dropped at total of 4 units, by 0.15 s 9 units, and so on. Near the surface of the Earth, the acceleration due to gravity g = 9.807 m/s 2 ( metres per second squared , which might be thought of as "metres per second, per second"; or 32.18 ft/s 2 as "feet ...

  4. Gravitational constant - Wikipedia

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    In addition to Poynting, measurements were made by C. V. Boys (1895) [25] and Carl Braun (1897), [26] with compatible results suggesting G = 6.66(1) × 10 −11 m 3 ⋅kg −1 ⋅s −2. The modern notation involving the constant G was introduced by Boys in 1894 [12] and becomes standard by the end of the 1890s, with values usually cited in the ...

  5. Gravitational potential - Wikipedia

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    The gravitational potential (V) at a location is the gravitational potential energy (U) at that location per unit mass: =, where m is the mass of the object. Potential energy is equal (in magnitude, but negative) to the work done by the gravitational field moving a body to its given position in space from infinity.

  6. Round turn and two half-hitches - Wikipedia

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    The round turn and two half hitches is a hitch used to secure the end of a rope to a fixed object. The name refers to the components used to form the knot: a round turn wraps the rope around the object (completely encircling it) and the two half hitches secure the end around the standing part. Variations of this hitch can be made with differing ...

  7. Specific energy - Wikipedia

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    If a comet with this speed fell to the Earth it would gain another 63 MJ/kg, yielding a total of 2655 MJ/kg with a speed of 72.9 km/s. Since the equator is moving at about 0.5 km/s, the impact speed has an upper limit of 73.4 km/s, giving an upper limit for the specific energy of a comet hitting the Earth of about 2690 MJ/kg.

  8. Particle in a one-dimensional lattice - Wikipedia

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    Assuming the spacing between two ions is a, the potential in the lattice will look something like this: The mathematical representation of the potential is a periodic function with a period a . According to Bloch's theorem , [ 1 ] the wavefunction solution of the Schrödinger equation when the potential is periodic, can be written as:

  9. Voronoi diagram - Wikipedia

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    For one other site , the points that are closer to than to , or equally distant, form a closed half-space, whose boundary is the perpendicular bisector of line segment . Cell R k {\displaystyle R_{k}} is the intersection of all of these n − 1 {\displaystyle n-1} half-spaces, and hence it is a convex polygon . [ 6 ]