CHARACTERISTICS OF GRAVITATIONAL FORCE

CHARACTERISTICS OF GRAVITATIONAL FORCE

1.It is always attractive in nature.
2. It obeys inverse square law.

3. It is independent of nature of intervening medium.

4. It is independent of the presence or absence of other bodies.

5. It is independent of nature and size of the bodies, till their masses remain the same and the distance between their centres is fixed. 

6. It holds good over a wide range of distances. It is found true from interplanetary distances to interatomic distances. 

7. It is an action-reaction pair.

8. It is a conservative force as workdone by it is path independent.

9. It is a central force. It acts along the line joining the centre of the two bodies.