three differences between gravity and gravitation.

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fifciol · Answer

Usually gravity and gravitation are used for same thing mostly as synonyms.But literally there is vast differences between them.

Gravitation is the force of attraction between two bodies with masses as described as Newton's first law .
Gravity is the special case of Gravitation in which one mass is of earth or any other planet.
Since Gravitation is applied in any galaxy,atom or body it is universal.So called universal gravitaional constant.

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anonymous · Answer

universal gravitational constant(G=6.67*10^-11 Nm^2/Kg^2 )is different from gravitation(which is force).Any other differences you have found out?

fifciol · Answer

Newton's law of universal gravitation

anonymous · Answer

basic difference, gravity is a kind of acceleration.. which in turn results from the force of gravitation (hence gravitation is a force) experienced by a body by a planet..

anonymous · Answer

so gravity is the acceleration that results from Gravitation
while gravitation is a force..

heck i just repeated the previous comment..

vincent-lyon.fr · Answer

If I understand gravity in the sense of 'weightiness', then the main difference is that gravitation is an interaction, so does not depend on the frame where you are working, whereas weight is a frame-dependant mixture of force (gravitation) and inertial force.