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Relating to the force of attraction that draws bodies together.

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  • The gravitational pull of the moon and the sun causes the tides in our oceans.
  • (Force) = (gravitational mass) × (intensity of the gravitational field), where the “gravitational mass” is likewise a characteristic constant for the body.
  • LIGO, the largest experiment so far for spying the ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves.
  • We can detect it by the so called gravitational lensing.
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