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Experimental Gravity

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The present status of experimental gravity is reviewed. We discuss experimental tests of Newton’s law of gravity (the 1/r2-law, Ġ/G and the numerical value of G), of various forms of the equivalence principle (the weak equivalence principle, Einstein’s equivalence principle and the strong equivalence principle related with the Nordtvedt effect) as well as various tests of metric theories of gravity. Among the latter we describe the search for gravito-magnetism (Lense-Thirring effects), measurements of the geodetic precession and light-deflection (signal retardation) effects. The important topics of binary pulsars and gravitational wave physics are beyond the scope of that article.

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Soffel, M. (1998). Experimental Gravity. In: Riffert, H., Ruder, H., Nollert, HP., Hehl, F.W. (eds) Relativistic Astrophysics. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11294-5_16

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