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The 46 pages that link to Gravitational potential, each with the reason it gives.

• Dark matterRelated: It connects an inferred mass distribution to the motions of stars and galaxies.

• Galaxy clusterRelated: The cluster’s potential well governs how galaxies and hot gas move and remain bound.

• Gravitational waveCompared with: It is a useful weak-field description, not the propagating spacetime disturbance detected by interferometers.

• Gravitational lensingRelated: In weak fields, variations in potential determine how much light is deflected.

• Potential energyRelated: It describes the field independently of the mass placed within it.

• GeoidRelated: The geoid is a surface of constant gravitational potential, including the effect of Earth’s rotation.

• Laplace's equationRelated: Where mass density is zero, the Newtonian potential is harmonic.

• Scalar fieldBroader topic: It represents gravity through a scalar field rather than directly through vectors.

• Newtonian gravityRelated: Potential turns the force description into an energy landscape for motion.

• WeightRelated: Changes in gravitational potential help explain how weight and gravitational energy relate.

• Gravitational fieldRelated: Its spatial gradient determines the field’s direction and strength.

• Gravitational potential energyRelated: Multiplying potential by mass gives an object's gravitational potential energy.

• Weak gravitational lensingRelated: Its spatial variations determine how foreground structures deflect light rays.

• Gravitational binding energyRelated: Integrating potential over a system's mass gives its gravitational potential energy.

• Gravitational redshiftRelated: Differences in this quantity determine the frequency shift between emission and observation.

• Gravitational constantRelated: For a point mass, G determines the potential’s strength and spatial profile.

• Gravitational forceRelated: Its spatial gradient determines the Newtonian gravitational field and force.

• N-body simulationRelated: Force solvers can compute gravitational fields from a potential rather than summing forces directly.

• Electrochemical potentialCompared with: It describes mechanical transport rather than charged-particle transport.

• Harmonic functionRelated: Away from mass, the Newtonian gravitational potential satisfies Laplace’s equation.

• Gravitational time dilationRelated: Differences in gravitational potential determine the leading-order rate difference between nearby clocks.

• Density wave theoryNarrower topic: The wave’s gravitational field perturbs stellar orbits and helps maintain its structure.

• Multipole expansionRelated: Mass distributions produce exterior potentials with monopole and higher gravitational moments.

• Potential theoryRelated: Mass distributions generate Newtonian potentials governed by Poisson's equation.

• Time dilationRelated: Differences in potential determine gravitational contributions to clock-rate differences.

• Gravitational parameterCompared with: For a point mass, the potential is derived from μ but is not itself the parameter.

• Great AttractorRelated: The surrounding mass distribution creates the potential that guides large-scale flows.

• Roche lobeNarrower topic: The gravitational part of the effective potential helps determine the lobe’s shape.

• Stellar dynamicsRelated: It summarizes the gravitational field that drives stellar orbits.

• Earth's gravity fieldRelated: Potential surfaces provide a complementary description of the field and define the geoid.

• Gravitationally bound systemRelated: It describes how the system’s mass distribution shapes the energy landscape for its members.

• Jacobi integralRelated: The primaries’ gravitational potential supplies the attractive part of the effective potential.

• Conservative vector fieldBroader topic: Its spatial gradient, with a minus sign, gives gravitational acceleration.

• Alexis ClairautRelated: Potential provides a mathematical route from gravity and rotation to equilibrium surfaces.

• Orbital energyRelated: Its value supplies the potential-energy term in the specific orbital-energy equation.

• Barometric formulaRelated: Using potential rather than altitude extends the relation to varying gravity.

• Dipole repellerRelated: The repeller corresponds to a region of relatively high gravitational potential in reconstructed density fields.

• Equatorial bulgeRelated: The planet's gravity combines with rotational potential to determine its equilibrium figure.

• Gradient theoremBroader topic: The theorem relates gravitational work to potential differences between locations.

• Intergalactic starRelated: A star is unbound from a galaxy when its motion and energy carry it beyond that galaxy's potential well.

• Astronomical masses and mass distributionsRelated: It describes the field generated by a mass distribution, not the distribution itself.

• EquipotentialRelated: Its equal-value surfaces describe locations with the same gravitational potential.

• Gauss's law for gravityRelated: Expressing the field as a potential turns the flux law into Poisson's equation.

• Legendre equationRelated: Solving its axisymmetric exterior problem uses Legendre polynomial expansions.

• Newton's theorem of revolving orbitsRelated: The theorem's added inverse-cube force corresponds to an inverse-square term in the potential.

• Physical geodesyRelated: Potential theory turns gravity observations into equations for Earth’s mass and shape.