Physics > Gravitation > 1.0 Newton's law of gravitation

  Gravitation
    1.0 Newton's law of gravitation
    2.0 Variation of acceleration due to gravity
    3.0 Gravitational field
    4.0 Gravitational potential
    5.0 Gravitational potential energy
    6.0 Satellites
    7.0 Kepler's law of planetary motion
    8.0 Problem solving technique

1.3 Principle of superposition of gravitation
It states that the resultant gravitational force $\left( {\overrightarrow F } \right)$ acting on a particle due to other particles is equal to the vector sum of the gravitational force exerted by individual particles on the given particle.

$$\overrightarrow F = {\overrightarrow F _{01}} + {\overrightarrow F _{02}} + {\overrightarrow F _{03}} + ... + {\overrightarrow F _{0n}}$$$$\overrightarrow F = \sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {{{\overrightarrow F }_{0i}}} $$
where ${\overrightarrow F _{01}},\,\,{\overrightarrow F _{02}},\,\,{\overrightarrow F _{03}}\,...\,\,{\overrightarrow F _{0n}}$ are the gravitational force on a particle of mass $m_0$ due to particle of masses ${m_1},\,\,{m_2}\,\,...\,\,{m_n}$ respectively.
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