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In physics, a gravitational field is a model used to explain the influence that a massive body extends into the space around itself, producing a force on another massive body. Thus, a gravitational field is used to explain gravitational phenomena, and is measured in newtons per kilogram (N/kg). In its original concept, gravity was a force between point masses. Following Newton, Laplace attempted to model gravity as some kind of radiation field or fluid, and since the 19th century explanations for gravity have usually been taught in terms of a field model, rather than a point attraction.
In a field model, rather than two particles attracting each other, the particles distort spacetime via their mass, and this distortion is what is perceived and measured as a "force". In such a model one states that matter moves in certain ways in response to the curvature of spacetime, and that there is either no gravitational force, or that gravity is a fictitious force.
Continuing the A Level revision series covering, fields, the gravitational field, the gravitational constant (G), gravitational potential energy, gravitational potential, the velocity and period of masses in orbit, geosynchronous satellites, Kepler's laws and escape velocity
A Level Physics Doodle Science teaches you high school and College physics in a less boring way in almost no time! Follow me: https://twitter.com/DoodleSci You can support me at: https://patreon.com/doodlescience Script: A gravitational field is a region around one mass, which affects other nearby masses. It is very weak however which is why the effect is only significant on large objects like the Earth. We can represent the Earth’s gravitational field by drawing field lines showing the direction of the gravitational force on masses in the field. In this case the field is radial and equally spread around the earth. On the surface of the earth the gravitational field is approximately uniform because the field lines are virtually pointing in the same direction and are equally spaced. Th...
025 - Gravitational Field Strength In this video Paul Andersen explains how the gravitational field strength is directly related to the mass of the object and indirectly related to the square of the distance from the center of mass. The equation for gravitational field strength was discovered by Sir Isaac Newton and contains a gravitational constant. Do you speak another language? Help me translate my videos: http://www.bozemanscience.com/translations/ Music Attribution Title: String Theory Artist: Herman Jolly http://sunsetvalley.bandcamp.com/track/string-theory All of the images are licensed under creative commons and public domain licensing: "File:GRACE Globe Animation.gif." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Accessed May 22, 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GRACE_globe_ani...
A summary of the key points for gravitational fields: Force, Field Strength, Potential Energy, Potential, Radial / Uniform.
Explains how lower case "g" is both the acceleration due to gravity and also the gravitational field strength.
This animation simulates the gravitational field near a planetary body as it is warped by an orbiting satellite. The grid represents test particles and the vectors represent the acceleration of the test particle computed using Newton's law for gravity, F = GMm/r^2. I started with the true mass of the earth and moon, but increased the mass of the moon by a factor of 10 and decreased the distance from the earth to the moon substantially to amplify the visual effect. The diameter of the earth as compared to the moon is accurate, but the distance between them is not. The first half of this animation shows the satellite with a fixed distance orbit and the second half with the orbiting distance decreasing as a quadratic function according to the kinematics of projectile motion. Near the end, th...
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Help Keep PTSOS Going, Click Here: https://www.gofundme.com/ptsos Dan Burns explains his space-time warping demo at a PTSOS workshop at Los Gatos High School, on March 10, 2012. Thanks to Shannon Range from the Gravity Probe B program for creating the original demonstration which he shared with Dan in 2004. Information on how to make your own Spacetime Simulator can be found here: http://prettygoodphysics.wikispaces.com/PGP-Modern+Physics
A brief introduction to gravitational fields for beginning high school students. For more information, check out http://www.aplusphysics.com.
Introductory Physics - Gravitation - Gravitational field www.premedacademy.com
An introduction to the electric and gravitational fields.
Unit 3 Lesson 11 Gravitational Field Strength: Lecture Only.
Unit 3 Lesson 11 Gravitational Field Strength: explanation and problems solving!
Physics, Class XI Chapter : Gravitation Topic: Gravitational field Potential. Classroom lecture by Pradeep Kshetrapal. Language : English mixed with Hindi.
Lecture 9, sections 11.38--11.43: A particle in a gravitational field, The principle of equivalence, Weak, static gravitational fields, Gravitational time dilation, Curvature, Einstein's equations.
Aleksandr Tsybin - The Michelson-Morley Experiment, Black Holes, Gamma Rays and Gravitational Fields . Talk presented at Natural Philosophy Alliance Conference 2014
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