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Calculate Gravity Force PDF
Calculate Gravity Force PDF
One of the four fundamental physical forces, gravity influences every engineering
enterprise humans have ever undertaken, especially in the realm of economics.
Being able to calculate the force of gravity and solve related problems is a basic
and essential skill in introductory physical science courses.
electromagnetic force. Gravity is the weakest of the four, but has enormous
influence on how the universe itself it structured.
F_{grav} = \frac{GM_1M_2}{r^2}
where the universal gravitation constant G = 6.67 × 10-11 N m2/kg2.
Gravity Explained
The magnitude g of the gravitational field of any "massive" object (that is, a galaxy,
star, planet, moon, etc.) is expressed mathematically by the relationship:
g= GM
d2
where G is the constant just defined, M is the mass of the object and d is the
distance between the object and the point at which the field is measured. You can
see by looking at the expression for Fgrav that g has units of force divided by mass,
since the equation for g is essentially the force of gravity equation (the equation
for Fgrav) without accounting for the mass of the smaller object.
The variable g therefore has units of acceleration. Near the surface of the Earth,
the acceleration owing to the Earth's gravitational force is 9.8 meters per second
per second, or 9.8 m/s2. If you decide to go far in physical science, you will see this
figure more times than you'll be able to count.
F=mg
where g = 9.8 m/s2 on Earth. This is a special case of Newton's second law of
motion, which is
F=ma
The gravity acceleration formula can be used in the usual way with the so-called
Newtonian equations of motion that relate mass (m), velocity (v), linear position
(x), vertical position (y), acceleration (a) and time (t) . That is, just as d = (1/2)at2,
the distance an object will travel in time t in a line under the force of a given
acceleration, the distance y an object will fall under the force of gravity in time t is
yielded by the expression d = (1/2)gt2, or 4.9_t_2 for objects falling under the
influence of Earth's gravity.