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Gravity

Definition

In physics, gravity, also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, which may be described as the force that draws material objects towards each other.

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Taub Accelerated expansion Acceleration Action at a distance Action principles Air resistance Al-Biruni Al-Khazini Albert Einstein Alexander Friedmann Alexis Bouvard Alexis Clairaut Alternatives to general relativity Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri Analytical mechanics Ancient Greece Angular acceleration Angular displacement Angular frequency Angular momentum Angular velocity Ann Druyan Anti-gravity Appell's equation of motion Applied mechanics Archimedes Arcseconds Aristotelian physics Aristotle Arthur Eddington Arthur Geoffrey Walker Artificial gravity Astrometry Astronomia nova Astronomical object Astronomy Picture of the Day Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity Atmospheric escape Atmospheric wave Augustin-Louis Cauchy BSSN formalism Benedetto Varchi Bernard Koopman Bernhard Riemann Big Bang Bimetric gravity Black hole Black hole merger Black holes Bosonic string theory Brahmagupta Brans–Dicke theory Brown dwarf Byzantine Empire CGHS model Cambridge University Press Canonical quantum gravity Carl Gauss Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Carl Sagan Causal dynamical triangulation Causal sets Cavendish experiment Celestial mechanics Center of gravity Centrifugal force Centripetal force Charles Coulston Gillispie Charles W. Misner Christiaan Huygens Christopher Wren Circular motion Circulatory system Classical elements Classical field theory Classical limit Classical mechanics Coalescence (physics)Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca Composite gravity Conformal gravity Continuum mechanics Coordinate system Coriolis force Cosmological constant Couple (mechanics)Curvature Cygnus (constellation)Cygnus X-1 D'Alembert's principle DGP model Damping Daniel Bernoulli Dark energy Dark matter Dark matter halo David Halliday (physicist)David Hilbert De Caelo De Sitter–Schwarzschild metric De architectura De motu corporum in gyrum Degenerate Higher-Order Scalar-Tensor theories Delft tower experiment Dennis Overbye Displacement (geometry)Distance Domingo de Soto Dominican Order Doppler shift Dugald Stewart Dynamics (mechanics)Earth's gravity Edmond Halley Edmund Halley Edward Arthur Milne Edward Routh Einstein's Cross Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell Einstein field equation Einstein field equations Einstein rings Einstein tensor Einstein–Cartan theory Einstein–Hilbert action Einstein–Rosen metric Electromagnetic force Electromagnetic radiation Electromagnetism Electron degeneracy pressure Electrons Electroweak interaction Ellipse Encyclopedia of Mathematics Energy Entropic gravity Equations for a falling body Equations of motion Equivalence principle Escape velocity Euclidean quantum gravity Euclidean space Euclidean vector Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics)Euler's laws of motion European Mathematical Society Event horizon Exact solutions in general relativity Expansion of the universe Eyeglass Ezra T. Newman F(R) gravity F-theory Fictitious force Fifth force Flanders Flyby anomaly Force Frame-dragging Frame dragging Frame of reference Francesco Maria Grimaldi Frank Watson Dyson Free fall Friction Friedmann equations Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric Fritz Zwicky Fundamental interaction Galaxies Galaxy Galaxy groups and clusters Galaxy rotation curve Galilean transformation Galileo Galileo Galilei Gamma ray Gas-giant planet Gauge theory gravity Gauss's law for gravity Gauss–Bonnet gravity General relativity Geodesic Geodesics in general relativity Geodetic effect Geometrodynamics Geometry Georges Lemaître Giambattista Benedetti Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term Giovan Battista Bellaso Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Giovanni Battista Riccioli Glen Rebka Glossary of physics Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gravitation (disambiguation)Gravitational biology Gravitational constant Gravitational field Gravitational interaction of antimatter Gravitational lens Gravitational lensing Gravitational mass Gravitational potential Gravitational redshift Gravitational singularity Gravitational time dilation Gravitational wave Gravitational waves Graviton Gravitropism Gravity (disambiguation)Gravity Probe B Gravity anomaly Gravity assist Gravity of Earth Gravity wave Gunnar Nordström Gödel metric Hamiltonian mechanics Hamilton–Jacobi equation Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation Hans Reissner Harmonic oscillator Hartle–Thorne metric Hendrik Lorentz Henri Poincaré Henry Cavendish Hermann Weyl Heterotic string theory History of classical mechanics History of general relativity History of geometry History of gravitational theory Howard P. Robertson Hulse–Taylor binary Hydrogen Hydrostatic equilibrium Hypersurface Impulse (physics)Inclined plane India Induced gravity Inertia Inertial frame of reference Inertial mass Infinite derivative gravity Interior Schwarzschild metric International Bureau of Weights and Measures International System of Units Introduction to general relativity Invariant (physics)Inverse-square law Inversely proportional Iron Irwin I. Shapiro Isaac Newton Ismaël Bullialdus J. Robert Oppenheimer Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity James M. Bardeen Jean le Rond d'Alembert Jeremiah Horrocks Jesuits Johann Bernoulli Johannes Kepler John Archibald Wheeler John Couch Adams John Gribbin John Philoponus John von Neumann Joseph-Louis Lagrange Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.Joseph Liouville Josiah Willard Gibbs Jürgen Ehlers Kaluza–Klein theory Kantowski–Sachs metric Karl Schwarzschild Kasner metric Kepler's laws of planetary motion Kerr metric Kerr–Newman metric Kerr–Newman–de–Sitter metric Kinematics Kinetic energy Kinetics (physics)Kip Thorne Kitt Peak National Observatory Koopman–von Neumann classical mechanics Kurt Gödel LIGO LIGO Scientific Collaboration Lagrangian (mechanics)Lagrangian mechanics Lambda-CDM model Latin language Law of Gravity (disambiguation)Le Sage's theory of gravitation Leaning Tower of Pisa Lemaître–Tolman metric Leonhard Euler Light-years Linear motion Linearized gravity Liouville gravity List of contributors to general relativity List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics List of unsolved problems in physics Little string theory Loop quantum gravity Lorentz transformation Lovelock theory of gravity Luca Ghini Luminiferous aether M-theory Malcolm Longair Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Mass Massive gravity Mathematics of general relativity Mathisson–Papapetrou–Dixon equations Maxwell's equations McVittie metric Mechanical explanations of gravitation Mechanical power (physics)Mercury (planet)Metric space Metric tensor Metric tensor (general relativity)Micrographia Middle East Milne model Minkowski space Modern physics Modified Newtonian dynamics Moment (physics)Moment of inertia Momentum Moon Motion Multicellular organism NASA National Institute of Standards and Technology Neptune Neutron degeneracy pressure Neutron star Newman–Penrose formalism Newton's law of universal gravitation Newton's laws of motion Newton's second law Newton–Hooke priority controversy for the inverse square law Nobel Foundation Nobel Prize in Physics Non-Euclidean geometry Non-inertial reference frame Noncommutative quantum field theory Nonsymmetric gravitational theory Nordström's theory of gravitation Nuclear force Nuclear fusion Oppenheimer–Snyder model Orbit Parameterized post-Newtonian formalism Partial differential equation Particle physics Paul Émile Appell Pendulum (mechanics)Peres metric Perihelion Persians Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica Philosophy of physics Photon Physical Review Letters Physical law Physical object Physics Physics in the medieval Islamic world Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre Louis Maupertuis Pioneer anomaly Planck length Planet Planets Plutarch Poincaré gauge theory Poisson's equation Potential energy Potentiality and actuality Pound–Rebka experiment Pp-wave spacetime Principle of relativity Proportionality (mathematics)Pseudo-Riemannian manifold Pulsar Quantum Quantum field theory Quantum gravity Quantum mechanics Quasar Quintessence (physics)RST model Rainbow gravity theory Raychaudhuri equation Reactive centrifugal force Red giant Redshift Reference frame Reissner–Nordström metric Relative density Relative velocity Rigid body Rigid body dynamics Robert Hooke Robert Pound Roger Penrose Rotating reference frame Rotation around a fixed axis Rotational frequency Routhian mechanics Routledge Roy Kerr Royal Society Russell Alan Hulse Satellite Satellites Scalar field Scalar theories of gravitation Scalar–tensor theory Scalar–tensor–vector gravity Schwarzschild metric Scientific Revolution Scientific hypothesis Second law of motion Semiclassical gravity Shell theorem Shing-Tung Yau Simon Stevin Simple harmonic motion Siméon Denis Poisson Solar eclipse of May 29, 1919 Solutions of the Einstein field equations Space Spacetime Spacetime diagram Spanish people Special case Special relativity Speed Speed of gravity Speed of light Spin foam Square (algebra)Standard Model of particle physics Standard gravitational parameter Standard gravity Star Star formation Statics Statistical mechanics Stephen Hawking Steven Weinberg Stress–energy tensor String theory Strong interaction Subatomic particle Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Sun Superfluid vacuum theory Supergravity Supernova Surface area System of equations Tangential speed Taub–NUT space Teleparallelism Tensors Tensor–vector–scalar gravity Tests of general relativity The New York Times Theory of everything Theory of impetus Tide Time Time delay of light Timeline of classical mechanics Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity Torque Total solar eclipse Toy model Twistor string theory Twistor theory Two-body problem in general relativity Two New Sciences Tycho Brahe Type 0 string theory Type II string theory Type I string theory Universe Uranus Urbain Le Verrier Vaidya metric Van Stockum dust Vector field Velocity Vibration Virgo interferometer Virtual particle Virtual work Vitruvius Wahlquist fluid Walter de Gruyter Weak interaction Weather fronts Weight Weightlessness Weyl metrics Wheeler–DeWitt equation White dwarf Whitehead's theory of gravitation Willem Jacob van Stockum Willem de Sitter William Rowan Hamilton Work (physics)World line Wormhole X-rays YGKOW G1

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