Who defined the “Law of Gravitation”?

Who defined the “Law of Gravitation”?

  • (A) Newton
  • (B) Archimedes
  • (C) Galileo
  • (D) Faraday
  • The Universal Law of Gravitation was described by Sir Isaac Newton in his 1687 Principia Mathematica". It states that all particles in the universe attract each other with a force proportional to their combined masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Newton’s great contribution was to extend the world of falling objects, as in the case of the falling apple, to the world of heavenly bodies, as in the case of the orbiting Moon.
  • Archimedes: While famous for his work on buoyancy and levers,  Archimedes' Principle.
  • Galileo: Galileo demonstrated that bodies fall at the same acceleration regardless of their mass, which is an understanding of falling bodies, but he did not define gravity as universal attraction.
  • Faraday: Michael Faraday is famous for his contributions to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
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 ‘NATO’ is an abbreviation of:

  • (A) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • (B) Non-Aligned Treaty Organization
  • (C) Non-Aligned Trading Organization
  • (D) North American Transport Organization

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