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the field source (larger), and is a unit vector directed from the field source to the sample (smaller) mass. The negative sign indicates that the force is attractive (points backward, toward the source).

Then the attraction force vector onto a sample mass can be expressed as:

:

Here is the frictionless, free-fall acceleration sustained by the sampling mass under the attraction of the gravitational source.It is a vector oriented toward the field

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