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  2. Equations for a falling body - Wikipedia

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    The first equation shows that, after one second, an object will have fallen a distance of 1/2 × 9.8 × 1 2 = 4.9 m. After two seconds it will have fallen 1/2 × 9.8 × 2 2 = 19.6 m; and so on. On the other hand, the penultimate equation becomes grossly inaccurate at great distances.

  3. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    where F is the gravitational force acting between two objects, m 1 and m 2 are the masses of the objects, r is the distance between the centers of their masses, and G is the gravitational constant. The first test of Newton's law of gravitation between masses in the laboratory was the Cavendish experiment conducted by the British scientist Henry ...

  4. Circular motion - Wikipedia

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    The momentum of the body is 1 kg·m·s −1. The moment of inertia is 1 kg·m 2. The angular momentum is 1 kg·m 2 ·s −1. The kinetic energy is 0.5 joule. The circumference of the orbit is 2 π (~6.283) metres. The period of the motion is 2 π seconds. The frequency is (2 π) −1 hertz.

  5. Gravitational acceleration - Wikipedia

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    It has dimension of acceleration (L/T 2) and it is measured in units of newtons per kilogram (N/kg) or, equivalently, in meters per second squared (m/s 2). In its original concept, gravity was a force between point masses .

  6. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

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    The moons of the trans-Neptunian objects (other than Charon) have not been included, because they appear to follow the normal situation for TNOs rather than the moons of Saturn and Uranus, and become solid at a larger size (900–1000 km diameter, rather than 400 km as for the moons of Saturn and Uranus).

  7. Mass - Wikipedia

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    If a first body of mass m A is placed at a distance r (center of mass to center of mass) from a second body of mass m B, each body is subject to an attractive force F g = Gm A m B /r 2, where G = 6.67 × 10 −11 N⋅kg −2 ⋅m 2 is the "universal gravitational constant". This is sometimes referred to as gravitational mass.

  8. Coriolis force - Wikipedia

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    where is the vector sum of the physical forces acting on the object, is the mass of the object, and is the acceleration of the object relative to the inertial reference frame. Transforming this equation to a reference frame rotating about a fixed axis through the origin with angular velocity ω {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\omega }}} having ...

  9. Schwarzschild radius - Wikipedia

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    When different objects (from particles to galaxies) are plotted on a size and mass chart, the Schwarzschild radius works as the upper-left limit of a triangle that contains all possible objects The Schwarzschild radius is given as r s = 2 G M c 2 , {\displaystyle r_{\text{s}}={\frac {2GM}{c^{2}}},} where G is the gravitational constant , M is ...