weak principle of equivalence

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In gravity: Gravitational fields and the theory of general relativity
The first is the weak principle of equivalence. Newton himself performed experiments with pendulums that demonstrated the principle to better than one part in 1,000 for a variety of materials, and, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Hungarian physicist Roland, Baron von Eötvös, showed that different materials…
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