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  2. Metacentric height - Wikipedia

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    The metacentric height (GM) is a measurement of the initial static stability of a floating body. [ 1 ] It is calculated as the distance between the centre of gravity of a ship and its metacentre. A larger metacentric height implies greater initial stability against overturning. The metacentric height also influences the natural period of ...

  3. Transconductance - Wikipedia

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    Transconductance (for transfer conductance), also infrequently called mutual conductance, is the electrical characteristic relating the current through the output of a device to the voltage across the input of a device. Conductance is the reciprocal of resistance. Transadmittance (or transfer admittance) is the AC equivalent of transconductance.

  4. Gravitational constant - Wikipedia

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    The standard gravitational parameter GM appears as above in Newton's law of universal gravitation, as well as in formulas for the deflection of light caused by gravitational lensing, in Kepler's laws of planetary motion, and in the formula for escape velocity. This quantity gives a convenient simplification of various gravity-related formulas.

  5. Standard gravitational parameter - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Standard gravitational parameter. The standard gravitational parameterμ of a celestial body is the product of the gravitational constant G and the mass M of that body. For two bodies, the parameter may be expressed as G(m1 + m2), or as GM when one body is much larger than the other: For several objects in the Solar System, the value ...

  6. Geometric mean - Wikipedia

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    The geometric mean of a data set {,, …,} is given by: (=) =. [3]The above figure uses capital pi notation to show a series of multiplications. Each side of the equal sign shows that a set of values is multiplied in succession (the number of values is represented by "n") to give a total product of the set, and then the nth root of the total product is taken to give the geometric mean of the ...

  7. Newton's law of universal gravitation - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. Separated objects attract and are attracted as if all their mass were concentrated ...

  8. Gravitational potential - Wikipedia

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    The product GM is the standard gravitational parameter and is often known to higher precision than G or M separately. The potential has units of energy per mass, e.g., J/kg in the MKS system. By convention, it is always negative where it is defined, and as x tends to infinity, it approaches zero.

  9. Gauss's law for gravity - Wikipedia

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    Gauss's law for gravity can be derived from Newton's law of universal gravitation, which states that the gravitational field due to a point mass is: where. er is the radial unit vector, r is the radius, | r |. M is the mass of the particle, which is assumed to be a point mass located at the origin.