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Meanings of gravitational constant in English

Russian
постоянная ньютона
Portuguese
constante gravitacional universal
Catalan
constant de la gravitació
Spanish
g
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Empirical physical constant relating the gravitational force between objects to their mass and distance.

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        постоянная ньютона
        Portuguese
        constante gravitacional universal

        (Physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation.

              constante gravitacional universal
              Usage of gravitational constant in English
              1
              It's named for Henry Cavendish, who used it to determine the gravitational constant.
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              2
              The only plausible way this could happen was if the fundamental gravitational constant, G, had shrunk.
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              3
              Light stretched, grew redder; the gravitational constant became a variable, dropping like a barometer before a storm.
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              4
              The magnitude of this force can be written like this: In this equation, we have: G-thegravitational constant.
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              5
              Here, G is the gravitational constant.
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              6
              Where G is the universal gravitational constant, m1 and m2 are the two masses in the interaction and r is the distance between their centers.
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