gravitational constant in English

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1
the constant in Newton's law of gravitation relating gravity to the masses and separation of particles, equal to 6.67 × 10 -11 N m 2 kg -2.
The first such quantity to be discovered was the gravitational constant of Newton.
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1. Gravitational constant in arbitrary units. Valid values from %# to %

2. Bernoulli's equation is: Where is pressure, is density, is the gravitational constant, is velocity, and is the height

3. Cavendish experiment, measurement of the force of gravitational attraction between pairs of lead spheres, which allows the calculation of the value of the gravitational constant, G

4. It introduced the Gaussian gravitational constant, and contained an influential treatment of the method of least squares, a procedure used in all sciences to this day to minimize the impact of measurement error.