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Explain newtons law of gravitation

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Newton’s law of gravitation states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.

F=GmMr2

Where, F is the gravitational force and m and M is the masses of the objects and r is the distance between the objects and G is the gravitational constant


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