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gravity and gravitational force is the same thing. Fundamentally, two masses are attracted to each other by a force that is proportional to M1*M2/r^2. where M1 and M2 are the mass of two objects and r is the separation between them. So gravity that is felt on earth is the force where the mass of Earth is M1 and mass of your body is M2 and r is the radius of the earth (+/-). Since a force is being felt and the force is equal to mass * acceleration, then your body is always feeling an acceleration toward the Earth of ~9.8 meters/sec^2 or 32 feet/sec^2. It is of note that you are causing an attractive force onto the earth as well, but the mass of the Earth is so much greater than the mass of your body, the effect is imperceptible.
Gravitational force is the force experienced by any one object due to the Mass of Any other body as per the equation F= G(M1 x M2)/ r^2.
If the mass of the object feeling the force becomes near to zero (or zero) the force disappears...
Gravity is the virtue (property) of any body having mass by which it can attract other masses towards itself...
Gravity is the tendency for an object to feel an attractive force with another object. Gravity is always an attractive force. This gravitational force varies proportionally with the product of the objects masses and inversely to the square of their center's distance.
F=G(m1)(m2)/(d^2)
Gravity is the reason why we stay on ground instead of flying into space, our body's mass is attracted with earth's mass.
I guess gravity is the short term for gravitational force. Most of the time they are used interchangeably.
I think, it is similar to ElectroStatics case. F = m*g and F = E*q where m-q and g-E are dual. Ergo, I think in the first equation, g is a vector since m is scaler and F is a vector. So we can say gravity is a vector and it is proportional to gravitational force with mass factor.
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