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What is gravitational field and gravitational potential ?
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Gravitational Field
A gravitational field is the region around a mass, like Earth, where other masses experience a force of attraction. For example, objects fall to the ground because they are within Earth's gravitational field.
Gravitational Potential
Gravitational potential is the work done to move a unit mass from a very far distance (infinity) to a specific point in the gravitational field. It indicates how much energy is needed to bring an object to that point. For instance, it takes more energy to lift an object higher above the ground because the gravitational potential increases with height.
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gravitational field at a point is the force experienced by a unit mass placed at that point. Its direction is towards the center of the mass causing the gravitational field. units are newtons per kilogram (N/kg) in the International System of Units (SI)
it is a vector quantity
Gravitational potential
It is defined as the amount of work done to move an object from a reference point (often infinity) to a specific point in the gravitational field
it is a scalar quantity
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Gravitational field : it's a force of an earth aroound
It increase with decrease of square distance.
Gravitational potential: relating to gravitational field earth is like to be a source charge any object in the field is point charge it moved towards source with energy it is gravitational potential. How much energy is required to move is gravitational potential
It increase with decrease in only distance.
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