The Newtonian constant of gravitation - A constant too difficult to measure? An introduction

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

Volumn 372, Issue 2026, 2014, Pages

  Quinn, Terry ^a   Speake, Clive ^b  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental gravitational physics; Gravity; Metrology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907279745     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0253     Document Type: Article

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