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What do you understand by the term Force of gravity?

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The gravitational force or the force of gravity is a force that attracts any objects with mass. This is also called as Newton's law of gravitation.
Mathematically, F = GMmr2

where F = force of gravity, G = gravitational constant, M = mass of one object, m = mass of other object, r = distance between two objects.

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