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A precision measurement of the gravitational constant $G$ has been made using a beam balance. Special attention has been given to determining the calibration, the effect of a possible nonlinearity of the balance and the zero-point variation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 St. Schlamminger , E. Holzschuh , W. Kündig , F. Nolting , R. E. Pixley , J. Schurr , U. Straumann

The Newtonian gravitational constant has still 150 parts per million of uncertainty. This paper examines the linear and nonlinear equations governing the rotational dynamics of the torsion gravitational balance. A nonlinear effect modifying…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 Michele Rossi , Lorenzo Zaninetti

We determined the Newtonian Constant of Gravitation G by interferometrically measuring the change in spacing between two free-hanging pendulum masses caused by the gravitational field from large tungsten source masses. We find a value for G…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Harold V. Parks , James E. Faller

In 2006, a final result of a measurement of the gravitational constant $G$ performed by researchers at the University of Z\"urich was published. A value of $G=6.674\,252(122)\times 10^{-11}\,\mbox{m}^3\,\mbox{kg}^{-1}\,\mbox{s}^{-2}$ was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Schlamminger , R. E. Pixley , F. Nolting , J. Schurr , U. Straumann

We measured Newton's gravitational constant G using a new torsion balance method. Our technique greatly reduces several sources of uncertainty compared to previous measurements: (1) it is insensitive to anelastic torsion fiber properties;…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jens H. Gundlach , Stephen M. Merkowitz

A quantitatively verifiable expression for the Gravitational Constant is derived in terms of quantum mechanical quantities. This derivation appears to be possible by selecting a suitable physical process in which the transformation of the…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Engel Roza

One-dimensional blood flow model accuracy has been verified in many studies. This work is about introducing gravity into a one-dimensional model. For this purpose, gravitational force was introduced into the existing model. The boundary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-27 Oleg Shramko , Andrey Svitenkov , Pavel Zun

We derive formulae for the time variation of the gravitational ``constant'' and of the fine structure ``constant'' in various models with extra dimensions and analyze their consistency with the observational data.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Garcia-Berro , Yu. A. Kubyshin , P. Loren-Aguilar

About 300 experiments have tried to determine the value of the Newtonian gravitational constant, G, so far, but large discrepancies in the results have made it impossible to know its value precisely. The weakness of the gravitational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 G. Rosi , F. Sorrentino , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

A definition of the gravitational flow and a short description of the recipe of its calculation are presented.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Gershtein , A. A. Logunov , M. A. Mestvirishvili

We estimate the possible variations of the gravitational constant G in the framework of a generalized (Bergmann-Wagoner-Nordtvedt) scalar-tensor theory of gravity on the basis of the field equations, without using their special solutions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov , V. N. Melnikov , Mario Novello

Building on the principles of quantum electrodynamics and special relativity, we develop a semi-classical QED theory of gravitation. The experiment model for theoretical analysis is the "hyperfine splitting" of the ground energy state of…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Zhiping Li , Xin Li

We outline the developed approach within the light-cone sum rules at the leading order for calculation of the gravitational form factors related to the nucleon valence quark combinations. The predictions for the gravitational form factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 I. V. Anikin

The gravitational form factors of a hadron are defined through the matrix elements of the energy-momentum tensor current, which can be decomposed into the quark and gluonic parts, between the hadronic states. These form factors provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-21 Z. Dehghan , K. Azizi , U. Özdem

We present a general method for computing the gravitational radiation arising from the motion of bubble walls or thin fluid shells in cosmological phase transitions. We discuss the application of this method to different wall kinematics. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Ariel Megevand , Federico Agustin Membiela

Gravitational stability of a disc consisting of the gaseous and the stellar components are studied in the linear regime when the gaseous component is turbulent. A phenomenological approach is adopted to describe the turbulence, in which not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Mohsen Shadmehri , Fazeleh Khajenabi

In this work we derive a class of geometric flow equations for metric-scalar systems. Thereafter, we construct them from some general string frame action by performing volume-preserving fields variations and writing down the associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Davide De Biasio , Dieter Lust

Synergies between self-force theory and other approaches to the gravitational two-body problem have traditionally relied on calculations of gauge-invariant observables as functions of orbital frequencies. However, in self-force theory one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 David Trestini , Zachary Nasipak , Adam Pound

We study the properties of gravitational system in finite regions bounded by gravitational screens. We present the detail construction of the total energy of such regions and of the energy and momentum balance equations due to the flow of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Laurent Freidel

We review recent progress in the study of varying constants and attempts to explain the observed values of the fundamental physical constants. We describe the variation of $G$ in Newtonian and relativistic scalar-tensor gravity theories. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 John D. Barrow
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