Newton's constant and the twenty-first century laboratory

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1834, 2005, Pages 2265-2287

  Speake, Clive C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design of physics experiments; Experimental tests of gravity; Gravitation in astrophysics; Newtonian constant of gravitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 25644454358     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2005.1643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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