Gravity is a fundamental force that attracts two objects with mass toward each other. The acceleration due to gravity is a constant value experienced by all objects near the surface of a massive body, ...

Gravitational acceleration, commonly denoted as ‘g’, is a physical constant that represents the force exerted by Earth’s gravity. The force acts upon any object that has mass and is near Earth’s ...

You see this all the time in textbooks: This is often described as "the acceleration due to gravity". Is this really the best thing to call this? No. A better name would be "the local gravitational ...

GEEC, stands for Gal Eötvös Earth Calculator, is an open-source software dedicated to compute precisely the gravitational fields of a mass body. This software is ...

I had an interesting thought, spurred on by a discussion I ran across online about firing guns in space. Apparently, smokeless powder contains its own oxidizer and so you could shoot normal firearms ...