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Force field (physics)
Region of space in which a force acts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In physics, a force field is a vector field corresponding with a non-contact force acting on a particle at various positions in space. Specifically, a force field is a vector field , where
is the force that a particle would feel if it were at the point
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