Section 5
Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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The Law of Universal Gravitation
Objects with mass feel an attractive force that is proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
Gravitational Attraction of Spherical Bodies: A Uniform Sphere
The Shell Theorem states that a spherically symmetric object affects other objects as if all of its mass were concentrated at its center.
Weight of the Earth
When the bodies have spatial extent, gravitational force is calculated by summing the contributions of point masses which constitute them.