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54: Gravity

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The English physicist Sir Isaac Newton developed his theory of the gravitational force in his famous work Philosophice Naturalis Principia Mathematica. In modern language and notation, it states that the force F between two point masses m1 and m2 separated by a distance r is given by

F=Gm1m2r2


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