Gravitation Definition

Gravitation Sentence Examples

• The question whether this cause modifies gravitation admits of an easy test from observation.

• The question has also been raised whether the action of gravitation is absolutely instantaneous.

• On the other hand the enigmatical motion of the perihelion of Mercury has not yet found any plausible explanation except on the hypothesis that the gravitation of the sun diminishes at a rate slightly greater than that of the inverse square - the most simple modification being to suppose that instead of the exponent of the distance being exactly - 2, it is - 2.000 000 161 2.

• We might conceive the rapid motions of the heavenly bodies to result in some change either in the direction or amount of their gravitation towards each other at each moment; but such is not the case, even in the most rapidly moving bodies of the solar system.

• The actual force between the particles arises in part from their mutual gravitation, which is inversely as the square of the distance.