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State Newton's law of universal gravitation.
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Answer
Every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centres, the force acting along the line joining them.
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Explanation
In symbols F = Gm1m2/r2, where G is the universal gravitational constant.
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