Gravitation

Submitted by pradipta pramanik on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 14:21

Gravitation :

Laws of gravitation, gravitational field and potential, acceleration due to gravity and its variation, escape velocity, Kepler’s laws and planetary motion, motion of satellites, Geostationary orbit.

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