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Observations In life
- An apple falls from a tree.
- The Moon orbits Earth.
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Newton's Law of Gravitation
- Sir Isaac Newton was the first scientist to precisely define the gravitational force, and to show that it could explain both falling bodies and astronomical motions.
- The law states that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
- The direction of the force is along the line joining the line of particles.
- Gravitational force is always attractive.
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Equation
- Considering masses in kilograms and distance in meters.