Below you will find example sentences with "gravitational mass". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Gravitational Mass in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 15
- Discovered as a combination around: mass
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "gravitational mass" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as always exceeds gravitational mass, and active gravitational mass are conceptually, passive, inertial and same stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with mass shooting, mass shootings, mass destruction, mass shootings, reaction mass and body mass, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with gravitational mass
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At high speeds, relativistic mass always exceeds gravitational mass. (9 words)
Passive gravitational mass is determined by dividing an object's weight by its free-fall acceleration. (16 words)
General relativity models gravity as a curvature within space-time that changes as a gravitational mass moves. (17 words)
Two objects within the same gravitational field will experience the same acceleration; however, the object with a smaller passive gravitational mass will experience a smaller force (less weight) than the object with a larger passive gravitational mass. (37 words)
Gravitational lensing observations of galaxy clusters allow direct estimates of the gravitational mass based on its effect on light coming from background galaxies, since large collections of matter (dark or otherwise) gravitationally deflect light. (34 words)
To date, no other accurate method for measuring gravitational mass has been discovered. citation Newton's cannonball A cannon on top of a very high mountain shoots a cannonball horizontally. (30 words)
Example sentences (15)
Inertial vs. gravitational mass Although inertial mass, passive gravitational mass and active gravitational mass are conceptually distinct, no experiment has ever unambiguously demonstrated any difference between them.
By finding the exact relationship between a body's gravitational mass and its gravitational field, Newton provided a second method for measuring gravitational mass.
Two objects within the same gravitational field will experience the same acceleration; however, the object with a smaller passive gravitational mass will experience a smaller force (less weight) than the object with a larger passive gravitational mass.
When a distinction is necessary, M is used to denote the active gravitational mass and m the passive gravitational mass.
Gravitational lensing observations of galaxy clusters allow direct estimates of the gravitational mass based on its effect on light coming from background galaxies, since large collections of matter (dark or otherwise) gravitationally deflect light.
Gravitational mass is measured by comparing the force of gravity of an unknown mass to the force of gravity of a known mass.
In practice, "inertial mass" is normally taken to be "invariant mass" and so is identical to gravitational mass without the energy component.
As of 2009, the Earth's mass in kilograms is only known to around five digits of accuracy, whereas its gravitational mass is known to over nine significant figures.
At high speeds, relativistic mass always exceeds gravitational mass.
In fact, by unit conversion it is a simple matter of abstraction to realize that any traditional mass unit can theoretically be used to measure gravitational mass.
The property, observed by Galileo, that objects of different mass fall with the same rate of acceleration (ignoring air resistance), shows that inertial and gravitational mass are the same.
General relativity models gravity as a curvature within space-time that changes as a gravitational mass moves.
In particular, assuming the gravitational mass is due to only visible matter, stars far from the center of galaxies have much higher velocities than predicted by the virial theorem.
Passive gravitational mass is determined by dividing an object's weight by its free-fall acceleration.
To date, no other accurate method for measuring gravitational mass has been discovered. citation Newton's cannonball A cannon on top of a very high mountain shoots a cannonball horizontally.