Newtonian Potential/Examples/Gravitational Field

Example of Newtonian Potential

The gravitational field arising from a point mass is an instance of a Newtonian potential.

Sources

• 1951: B. Hague: An Introduction to Vector Analysis (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {V}$: Further Applications of the Operator $\nabla$: $9$. The Vector Field $\map \grad {k / r}$