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Every person has a gravity force vector with a magnitude (weight) measured in pounds or newtons, and a direction toward the center of the earth.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
What is this law of gravitation? It is that every object in the universe attracts every other object with a force which for any two bodies is proportional to the mass of each and varies inversely as the square of the distance between them. This statement can be expressed mathematically by the equation
Robert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Specifically, we will be testing Newton’s calculation of the speed of gravity and Galileo’s principle that objects with different mass fall at an equivalent rate.”
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Epotential = mgh.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Newton postulou uma lei da gravitação universal, segundo a qual todo corpo no universo seria atraído para todos os outros corpos