{"id":8570,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newton-s_law_of_universal_gravitation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:08","slug":"newton-s_law_of_universal_gravitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newton-s_law_of_universal_gravitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Newton&#8217;s law of universal gravitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a force of attraction between any two particles in the universe. &nbsp;Thus, every particle attracts every other particle with a force,F, given by&nbsp;F = Gm1m2 where m1 and m2 are the masses two particles at distance x apart, and G is the universal gravitational constant, which is now put at 6.672 59 x 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2. &nbsp;Real bodies having <a href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~jpschaar\/report\/node5.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~jpschaar\/report\/node5.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spherical symmetry<\/a> act as point masses positioned at the center of mass.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"biomechanics\">Biomechanics<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_gravity\">Center of gravity<\/a>, <a href=\"center_of_mass\">Center of mass<\/a>, <a href=\"force\">Force<\/a>, <a href=\"mass\">Mass<\/a>, <a href=\"newton-s_laws_of_motion\">Newton&#8217;s laws of motion<\/a>, Newtonian (or classical) mechanics<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a force of attraction between any two particles in the universe. &nbsp;Thus, every particle attracts every other particle with a force,F, given by&nbsp;F = Gm1m2 where m1 and m2 are the masses two particles at distance x apart, and G is the universal gravitational constant, which is now put at 6.672 59 x &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/newton-s_law_of_universal_gravitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newton&#8217;s law of universal gravitation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}