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gravity law comparison table

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equivalence principle The statement that a gravitational force is completely equivalent in all of its physical effects to an overall acceleration in the opposite direction. For example, a person in an elevator in space accelerating upward at 32 feet per second per second would feel the floor pushing upward against her feet in exactly the same way as if the elevator were at rest on earth, where gravity pulls downward with an acceleration of 32 feet per second per second. The "weak equivalence principle," which is not as strong as the equivalence principle, states that all objects, independent of their mass or composition, fall with the same acceleration in the presence of gravity. The Eötvös experiment, and later refinements of this experiment, have proven the weak equivalence principle. gravity law

Kepler's Law Johannes Kepler One of three orbital laws formulated by Kepler gravity law

Newton's theory of gravity Sir Isaac Newton Gravitational force decreases as one over distance squared (1/r²), where r is the distance from the source. inverse square law gravity law

Subject	has discoverer	has definition	has synonym	is a kind of	is an instance of
equivalence principle		The statement that a gravitational force is completely equivalent in all of its physical effects to an overall acceleration in the opposite direction. For example, a person in an elevator in space accelerating upward at 32 feet per second per second would feel the floor pushing upward against her feet in exactly the same way as if the elevator were at rest on earth, where gravity pulls downward with an acceleration of 32 feet per second per second. The "weak equivalence principle," which is not as strong as the equivalence principle, states that all objects, independent of their mass or composition, fall with the same acceleration in the presence of gravity. The Eötvös experiment, and later refinements of this experiment, have proven the weak equivalence principle.			gravity law
Kepler's Law	Johannes Kepler	One of three orbital laws formulated by Kepler		gravity law
Newton's theory of gravity	Sir Isaac Newton	Gravitational force decreases as one over distance squared (1/r²), where r is the distance from the source.	inverse square law		gravity law

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