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Gravitational analogy

 
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Introduction

Summary

If all charges are negative, there is a rigorous analogy between a gravitational field and an electric field. This fact may help you to intuit the field symmetry of other electric distributions. It also helps justify research into the unification of these forces.

Goals

  • To illustrate the analogy between an electric field and a gravitational field.

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field-lines gravitational-field gravitation Newtonian lines Lines-of-force