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The gravitational field is a region around a mass where another mass experiences a force due to gravity. Gravitational potential, on the other hand, is the amount of work needed to move a unit mass from a reference point to a specific point in the gravitational field, often measured in joules per kilogram...
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The gravitational field is a region around a mass where another mass experiences a force due to gravity. Gravitational potential, on the other hand, is the amount of work needed to move a unit mass from a reference point to a specific point in the gravitational field, often measured in joules per kilogram (J/kg) read less
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The gravitational field refers to the region of space surrounding a mass where another mass experiences a gravitational force. It's a vector field, meaning at each point in space, it has both magnitude and direction. The strength of the gravitational field depends on the mass of the object creating it...
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The gravitational field refers to the region of space surrounding a mass where another mass experiences a gravitational force. It's a vector field, meaning at each point in space, it has both magnitude and direction. The strength of the gravitational field depends on the mass of the object creating it and the distance from that object. In simpler terms, it's the force per unit mass experienced by a test mass placed at that point.

Gravitational potential, on the other hand, is a scalar field that describes the potential energy per unit mass at any point in space due to the gravitational field. It represents the work done per unit mass in moving a mass from a reference point (often infinity) to the point in question without changing its kinetic energy. Mathematically, it's usually defined as negative, with zero potential at infinity. The closer an object is to a massive body, the lower its gravitational potential energy.

Both concepts are crucial in understanding gravitational interactions and are fundamental in classical mechanics, astrophysics, and general relativity.

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gravitational field at a point is the force experienced by a unit mass placed at that point. Its direction is towards the center of the mass causing the gravitational field. units are newtons per kilogram (N/kg) in the International System of Units (SI) it is a vector quantity Gravitational potential It...
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gravitational field at a point is the force experienced by a unit mass placed at that point. Its direction is  towards the center of the mass causing the gravitational field.  units are newtons per kilogram (N/kg) in the International System of Units (SI)

it is a vector quantity

Gravitational potential

It is defined as the amount of work done to move an object from a reference point (often infinity) to a specific point in the gravitational field

it is a scalar quantity 

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Gravitational potential at any point in gravitational field is defined as the work done on unit mass to bring it from infinity to that point. Gravitational intensity at any point in the gravitational field is defined as the force acting on unit mass placed at that point
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The gravitational force acting over unit mass in the field is known as Gravitational Feild at the point while gravitational potential is defined as the amount of work done by the external agent while bringing a unit mass from infinity to the external field provided with constant speed!
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Gravitational field A gravitational field is the force field that exists in the space around every mass or group of masses. This field extends out in all directions, but the magnitude of the gravitational force decreases as the distance from the object increases. Gravitational...
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   A gravitational field is the force field that exists in the space around every mass or group of masses. This field extends out in all directions, but the magnitude of the gravitational force decreases as the distance from the object increases.
 
Gravitational potential
 
Gravitational potential is a scalar field associating with each point in space the work (energy transferred) per unit mass that would be needed to move an object to that point from a fixed reference point. It is analogous to the electric potential with mass playing the role of charge. The reference point, where the potential is zero, is by convention infinitely far away from any mass, resulting in a negative potential at any finite distance.
 
In mathematics, the gravitational potential is also known as the Newtonian potential and is fundamental in the study of potential theory. It may also be used for solving the electrostatic and magnetostatic fields generated by uniformly charged or polarized ellipsoidal bodies.
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Gravitational field : it's a force of an earth aroound It increase with decrease of square distance. Gravitational potential: relating to gravitational field earth is like to be a source charge any object in the field is point charge it moved towards source with energy it is gravitational potential....
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Gravitational field : it's a force of an earth aroound

It increase with decrease of square distance. 

Gravitational potential: relating to gravitational field earth is like to be a source charge any object in the field is point charge it moved towards source with energy it is gravitational potential. How much energy is required to move is gravitational potential

 

It increase with decrease in only distance. 

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The gravitational field intensity at a point is the measure of the gravitational force exerted on a unit mass located at that position. The gravitational potential at a specific position is the amount of potential energy that a unit mass would have at that point within the gravitational field.
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A gravitational field is the force field that exists in the space around every mass or group of masses. Gravitational potential at any point in gravitational field is defined as the work done on unit mass to bring it from infinity to that point.
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