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# gravitational. F = m<sub>1</sub>m<sub>2</sub>r<sup>2</sup>
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
  
 
[[Category: Physics]]
 
[[Category: Physics]]

Revision as of 22:11, 18 July 2023

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Mass is the concept that enables us to say that an object (or an idea) is weighty or massive.

Context

  • Issac Newton needed a mathematical definition of what caused gravity and so defined it thus[1]
    The quantity of matter is the measure of the same, arising from its density and bulk conjucntly ... It It is this that I mean hereafter everywhere under the name body, or mass. And the same is known by the weight of each body, for it is proportional to the weight, as i have found by experiments on pendulums, very accurately made, which shall be shown hereafter.
  • There are these types of mass as commonly defined:
  1. rest,
  2. inertial. F = ma, resistance to acceleration
  3. gravitational. F = m1m2r2

References

  1. Issac Newton Mathematical Principles