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प्रश्न
State the universal law of gravitation. Name the scientist who gave this law.
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उत्तर
The force of attraction between two particles or bodies is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Isaac Newton proposed this law, which is also known as Newton’s law of gravitation.
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