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What do you understand by the term force of gravity?


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  1. The gravitational force or the force of gravity is a force that attracts any object with mass.
  2. This is also called as Newton's law of gravitation.
  3. Mathematically, F=G×M×mr2

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


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