How was Newton able to guess that gravitational force is inversely proportional to distance squared?
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The distance square in the Newton's law of universal gravitation is really a square?
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How can we recover the Newtonian gravitational potential from the metric of general relativity?
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Understanding Normal Force Change
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How exactly does curved space-time describe the force of gravity?
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Why can we only add or subtract things of the same dimension (meters/second, newtons, etc)?
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How is gravity proportional to space-time curvature in the rubber-sheet analogy?
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Why $1/r^2$ and not another power of $r$ in Newton's law of gravitation?
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Inverse Square Law and extra space dimensions
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How did Newton discover the universal law of gravitation?
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How does the curvature of spacetime induce gravitational attraction?
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Can a black hole be explained by Newtonian gravity?
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Is gravitational potential energy proportional or inversely proportional to distance?
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Calculating gravity when taking into account the change of gravitational force
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Ambiguity in applying Newton's shell theorem in an infinite homogeneous universe
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How is centripetal force related to radius?
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How has the definition of gravitational potential energy been derived?
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Explanation on Newton's second law