gaspard - gustave coriolis wrote the equation for the law of gravitation.
gaspard - gustave coriolis wrote the equation for the law of gravitation.
who wrote the equation for the law of gravitation?
gaspard - gustave coriolis
gravitation was the first interaction to be described mathematically. in ancient times, aristotle hypothesized that objects of different masses fall at different rates. during the scientific revolution, galileo galilei experimentally determined that this hypothesis was wrong under certain circumstances — neglecting the friction due to air resistance, and buoyancy forces if an atmosphere is present (e.g. the case of a dropped air-filled balloon vs a water-filled balloon) all objects accelerate toward the earth at the same rate. isaac newton's law of universal gravitation (1687) was a good approximation of the behaviour of gravitation. our present-day understanding of gravitation stems from einstein's general theory of relativity of 1915, a more accurate (especially for cosmological masses and distances) description of gravitation in terms of the geometry of spacetime.
fundamental interaction
the prototypical scalar theory of gravitation is newtonian gravitation. in this theory, the gravitational interaction is completely described by the potential formula_1, which is required to satisfy the poisson equation (with the mass density acting as the source of the field). to wit:









































formula_2, where









































bullet::::- "g" is the gravitational constant and









































bullet::::- formula_3 is the mass density.









































this field theory formulation leads directly to the familiar law of universal gravitation, formula_4.









































section::::nordström's theories of gravitation.









































the first attempts to present a relativistic (classical) field theory of gravitation were also scalar theories. gunnar nordström created two such theories.
scalar theories of gravitation