BRAINCAKEThe Potential Gradient.
The potential gradient at a point in a gravitational field is the change in gravitational potential per metre.
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Key terms in this lesson
- Gravitational field
- A region of space in which a mass experiences a force due to the presence of another mass.
- Gravitational potential
- The work done per unit mass to move a small test mass from infinity to a point in a gravitational field; it is zero at infinity and negative everywhere else.
More in Gravitational Fields
- The Earth's gravitational field
- Gravitational Potential Energy
- Gravitational Potential
- Equipotentials.
- Newton's Law of Gravitation.
- Gravitational Field Strength - g.
- Gravitational Potential.
- Potential Gradients
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