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> potential energy surface of gravitation extends in 1/r What does this mean? Gravity falloff is 1/r^2 right?
by dahart 2y ago
> potential energy surface of gravitation extends in 1/r
What does this mean? Gravity falloff is 1/r^2 right?
- RunningDroid 2y agoGP may have used superscript that got stripped, here's a test with normal numbers followed by the superscript version : 0⁰ 1¹ 2²
- T-A 2y agoGravitational attraction falls off as 1 / r^2; potential energy falls off as 1 / r. The former (a force) is the derivative of the latter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_energy#Newtonian_mechanics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_energy#Newtonian...