| 单词 | newton's law of gravitation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNewton's law of gravitation b. A law of gravitation presented in Newton's Principia (1687) which states that any two bodies exert an attractive force on each other which is proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them; sometimes more fully Newton's law of gravitation. Cf. law of gravitation at gravitation n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > specific concepts or principles of Newton's lawa1830 science1840 1704 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1701 The Grand Phænomena of Nature he hath explain'd from the best Authors, as the Law of Gravitation from Mr Newton.] a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) III. 648/2 As far as the motions of the great masses of matter connected with our system either in the heavens or on our globe are concerned, observation and theory present no difference capable of being made an objection to the strict expression of Newton's law. 1920 A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation vi. 94 It is often urged that Newton's law of gravitation is much simpler than Einstein's new law... From the point of view of the four-dimensional world Newton's law is far more complicated. 1989 I. Stewart Does God play Dice? i. 15 Were the Solar System inhabited by Sun and Earth alone, Newton's law would predict that they move in ellipses about their mutual centre of gravity. < as lemmas |
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