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gravitational field

NOUN
  1. a field of force surrounding a body of finite mass

How To Use gravitational field In A Sentence

  • By coming so close to earth, the gravitational field will alter its trajectory ever so slightly.
  • To escape from the Moon's gravitational field, a sample must be accelerated to a velocity above 2.4 kilometres per second.
  • According to Mr Hiller, his shunter has to withstand decelerations of 5g (ie, five times the force of the Earth's gravitational field).
  • An object with mass creates a gravitational field around itself.
  • But the gravitational field is a symmetric tensor rather than a vector, and this means the graviton is spin-two, rather than spin-one like the photon.
  • Both represent the quantized field of a fundamental force: photons the electromagnetic field and gravitons the gravitational field.
  • Passive gravitational mass is a measure of the strength of an object's interaction with the gravitational field.
  • The wavelengths of the radio waves emitted by the pulsar are lengthened as a result of the effects of the gravitational field of the companion star (gravitational redshift).
  • Both Mercury and Mars have gravitational fields too low to retain an atmosphere.
  • In practice instruments could not survive such a journey; they would be torn apart by the increasing gravitational field gradients.
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