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State the universal law of gravitation. Name the scientist who gave this law.

According to universal law of gravitation: Everybody in the universe attracts every other body with a force (F) which is directly proportional to the product of their masses (m and M) and inversely proportional to the square of the distance (d) between them.

F = G * m * M/ d2


Sir Issac Newton gave this law.


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