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The 39 pages that link to Tidal force, each with the reason it gives.
TidesRelated: The Moon’s changing gravitational pull across Earth helps produce tidal bulges.
Newton's law of universal gravitationRelated: The law's distance dependence explains why the Moon raises tides across Earth.
Celestial mechanicsRelated: Celestial interactions produce tides that affect moons, planets, and orbital evolution.
Continental driftRelated: Harold Jeffreys showed these forces could not move continents against rock strength.
Andromeda GalaxyRelated: Tidal forces from Andromeda and its satellites reshape their stellar streams and outer halos.
Solar SystemRelated: Tides heat moons, synchronize rotations, and transfer orbital energy between bodies.
Roche limitRelated: The larger body's force varies across the smaller body, producing the stress that can disrupt it.
Tidal currentRelated: The Moon’s and Sun’s differential gravity drives the tides that generate these currents.
WeightRelated: Nonuniform gravity means different parts of an extended body need not experience identical gravitational forces.
Gravitational fieldRelated: Spatial variation in the field produces tides and stretches orbiting bodies.
Gravitational forceRelated: Spatial variation in gravity stretches and compresses planets, oceans, and orbiting objects.
Hill sphereRelated: Tidal effects help determine where a larger body's pull disrupts satellite orbits near the Hill boundary.
MicrogravityRelated: Unequal gravity across a spacecraft prevents perfect microgravity.
Orbital perturbationRelated: Tidal interactions can exchange energy and angular momentum, changing orbital evolution.
Galaxy interactionRelated: Uneven gravity across each galaxy pulls stars and gas into extended tidal features.
Stellar associationRelated: Galactic tides further alter the shape and motions of a loose association.
Full moonRelated: Full and new moons align solar and lunar tidal effects, producing spring tides.
Gravitationally bound systemRelated: Internal tidal stresses help determine which structures survive inside a bound system.
Messier 51Related: Uneven gravity from NGC 5195 draws out features in the Whirlpool system.
Ring galaxyRelated: Tidal forces reshape disks during encounters and help determine the resulting ring structure.
SupermoonRelated: The Moon’s close approach slightly strengthens its contribution to tides.
Andromeda–Milky Way collisionRelated: Uneven gravity during a close passage can stretch, distort, and rearrange both galaxies.
Immanuel VelikovskyRelated: Critics used tidal calculations to test the destructive encounters Velikovsky proposed.
Theory of tidesRelated: The Moon’s gravity varies across Earth, creating the force that drives tidal deformation.