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9 Cards in this Set
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Gravitational field |
Force field that exists in the space around every mass or group of Mass is measured in Newtons per kilogram |
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Weight |
Force on a body due to gravitational attraction of another body |
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Inverse Square law |
Law relating the intensity of an effect to the inverse square of the distance from the cause. Gravity Electric magnetic light sound and radiation phenomena follow this law |
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Black hole |
Concentration of mass resulting from gravitational collapse near which gravity is so intense that not even light can escape |
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Weightlessness |
Condition of Free Fall toward or around the Earth in which an object experiences no support Force |
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Spring tide |
High or low tide that occurs when the sun earth and moon are all lined up so that the tides due to the Sun and Moon inside making the High Tides higher than average and the low tides lower than average |
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Gee |
Pronunciation for the symbol abbreviation for gram symbol for acceleration due to gravity |
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Law of universal gravitation |
Amazon for any pair of particles each particle attracts the other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the particles and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers of mass |
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Neap tide |
Tide that occurs when the moon is halfway between a new moon and a full moon in either direction. The tides due to the Sun and the Moon partially cancel so that the high tides are lower than average and the low tides are not as low as average |
