• The gravitational metric system (original French term Système des Méchaniciens) is a non-standard system of units, which does not comply with the International...
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    The metric system is a decimal-based system of measurement. The current international standard for the metric system is the International System of Units...
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    Gravitational metric system was a little-used variant of the metric system that normalised the acceleration due to gravity. Metre–tonne–second system...
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  • Electrostatic units Gaussian units Gravitational metric system History of the metric system Metric system Outline of the metric system RKM code Unified Code for...
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  • Schwarzschild metric (also known as the Schwarzschild solution) is an exact solution to the Einstein field equations that describes the gravitational field outside...
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  • In general relativity, the metric tensor plays the role of the gravitational potential in the classical theory of gravitation, although the physical content...
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    A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity or simply singularity is a condition in which gravity is predicted to be so intense that spacetime...
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    Mass (redirect from Gravitational mass)
    gravitational mass determines the strength of the gravitational field generated by an object. Passive gravitational mass measures the gravitational force...
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  • up metric or -metric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metric or metrical may refer to: Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system of...
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    metric (FLRW), where it corresponds to an increase in the scale of the spatial part of the universe's spacetime metric tensor (which governs...
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  • measurements at greater distances from the Earth, or a larger gravitational source. Gravitational time dilation was first described by Albert Einstein in 1907...
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  • Kilopondmetre (category Non-SI metric units)
    Kilopondmetre is an obsolete unit of torque and energy in the gravitational metric system. It is abbreviated kp·m or m·kp, older publications often use...
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  • universal gravitation thus takes the form: F = G m 1 m 2 r 2 , {\displaystyle F=G{\frac {m_{1}m_{2}}{r^{2}}},} where F is the gravitational force acting...
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  • Newtonian gravitation can be written as the theory of a scalar field, Φ, which is the gravitational potential in joules per kilogram of the gravitational field...
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     'weight'), is a non-standard gravitational metric unit of force. It is not accepted for use with the International System of Units (SI) and is deprecated...
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  • the Reissner–Nordström metric is a static solution to the Einstein–Maxwell field equations, which corresponds to the gravitational field of a charged, non-rotating...
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  • in 1881, and adopted into the metric system. Together with the fact that the term "weight" is used for the gravitational force in some technical contexts...
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  • Kenneth; Crown, Linda; Gentry, Elizabeth J. (May 2006), "The International System of Units (SI) – Conversion Factors for General Use" (PDF), NIST Special...
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  • number of variations on the metric system have been in use. These include gravitational systems, the centimetre–gram–second systems (cgs) useful in science...
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  • detected gravitational waves, announced in 2016, also provided the first direct observation of a pair of Kerr black holes. The Kerr metric is commonly...
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    physics. Gravitation, also known as gravitational attraction, is the mutual attraction between all masses in the universe. Gravity is the gravitational attraction...
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  • Lagrangian density a metric If a theory has a Lagrangian density for gravity, say L {\displaystyle L\,} , then the gravitational part of the action S...
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    internal gravitational force. Mathematically this is expressed using the virial theorem, which states that to maintain equilibrium, the gravitational potential...
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  • charge in a gravitational field is an apparent physical paradox in the context of general relativity. A charged particle at rest in a gravitational field,...
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  • below: Boyer–Lindquist coordinates, and Kerr–Schild coordinates. The gravitational metric alone is not sufficient to determine a solution to the Einstein field...
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  • involves the Minkowski metric, which is used to determine which events are causally related and to calculate how gravitational influences are delayed...
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    The gravitational constant is an empirical physical constant involved in the calculation of gravitational effects in Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal...
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    radiation, and non-gravitational force fields. This density and flux of energy and momentum are the sources of the gravitational field in the Einstein...
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  • the gravitational field is described by the 10-component metric tensor. However, in Newtonian gravity, which is a limit of GR, the gravitational field...
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  • of the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was already known;...
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