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  • Essay / The law of universal gravitation by Isaac Newton

    Before the modern period, the system of the universe often eluded the inhabitants of the Earth. Early scientists and philosophers like Aristarchus of Samos and Ptolemy formulated hypotheses that touched the surface of the complex functions of the universe, but did not fully reveal the mysteries hidden in the heavens. However, when mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton proposed his law of universal gravitation, many doors to understanding the world began to open. Newton's law is represented by F = (G m1m2) / r^2, where F is the attractive force, G is the gravitational constant, m1 is the first mass, m2 the second mass and r is the distance between the center masses. This equation suggests that all objects in the universe attract each other with a force directly proportional to the product of their mass and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them [1]. The gravitational force between two objects is determined by the mass of the two bodies and the distance between them. The smaller the distance between two bodies of mass, the greater their gra...