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We briefly describe a recent experiment aimed at verifying the dependence on the distance in Newton’s inverse square law. Then we present two new experiments for: (i) testing the previous result; (ii) making a measurement of the G constant by a method different from those normally employed.
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Focardi, S. (2000). Testing Newton’s Inverse Square Law. In: Casciaro, B., Fortunato, D., Francaviglia, M., Masiello, A. (eds) Recent Developments in General Relativity. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2113-6_46
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