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Physics Words
acceleration: the change
in velocity per unit time.
gravity: the force of
attraction between two
bodies due to their
masses.
Inverse square relation:
the relationship of a force
to the inverse square of
the distance from the
mass (for gravitational
forces) or the charge (for
electrostatic forces).
Acceleration due
to Gravity (m/s2)
0
3.1
11
160
400 (Shuttle orbit)
1600
8000
16,000
36,000 (geosynchronous orbit for
communications satellite)
385,000 (orbit of the Moon)
9.81
9.76
9.74
9.30
8.65
6.24
1.92
0.79
0.23
0.003