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A gravitational analog of the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction

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In a quasistationary gravitational field and also during motion in a static or stationary field, a vortex force field arises which exerts torques on an extended body. These torques cause currents analogous to the Foucault currents in electrodynamics.

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  1. Sergo Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute, USSR

    V. I. Babetskii

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 16–20, October, 1978.

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Babetskii, V.I. A gravitational analog of the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. Soviet Physics Journal 21, 1263–1266 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00894241

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