Physics A-Level
Uniform gravitational field near the Earth's surface
What Uniform gravitational field near the Earth's surface means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Close to the Earth's surface, over distances small compared with the Earth's radius, the gravitational field strength is effectively uniform: its magnitude and direction are the same everywhere in that region.
Topics that use Uniform gravitational field near the Earth's surface
- Newton’s law of gravitation (OCR A-Level)
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- Application outside the body
- Gravitational field strength
- Inverse-square law
- Newton’s law of gravitation
- Vector nature of gravitational fields
- Attractive force between masses
- Gravitational constant G
- Limits of the uniform-field approximation
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