Conversely, if Newton's law of gravitation did " not " predict the apsidal precessions of the planets accurately, it would have to be discarded as a theory of gravitation.
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This fundamental result, called the Shell theorem, enables the inverse square law of gravitation to be applied to the real solar system to a very close degree of approximation.
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The geodesic and field equations simply are a restatement of Newton's Law of Gravitation as seen from a local frame of reference co-moving with the mass within the local frame.
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In 1776, Laplace published a memoir in which he first explored the possible influences of a purported luminiferous ether or of a law of gravitation that did not act instantaneously.
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The gravitational pull F _ \ text { G } on the mass u towards the satellite with mass m and radius r can be expressed according to Newton's law of gravitation.
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As well as obeying local energy momentum conservation, the EFE reduce to Newton's law of gravitation where the gravitational field is weak and velocities are much less than the speed of light.
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The edit of the article duly included Newton's Law of Gravitation, which is based on attraction; in addition to the removal of information where " citation was needed " and not provided:
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Its mathematical prediction was a great intellectual feat, but it showed also that Newton's law of gravitation, which Airy had almost called in question, prevailed even at the limits of the solar system.
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Such models " resemble Newton's law of gravitation in linking interactions between countries to the product of their sizes ( usually their gross domestic products ) divided by some composite measure of distance ."
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It followed that Newton's law of gravitation would have to be replaced with another law, compatible with the principle of relativity, while still obtaining the newtonian limit for circumstances where relativistic effects are negligible.
