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Within Vinony's link graph, inverse-square law is referenced by 249 other articles, and connects out to proportionality, Newton's law of universal gravitation and Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
It sits within the topics Philosophy of physics, Scientific laws and Scientific method.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Robert Hooke
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- Inverse-square law
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Encyclopedic overview
S represents the light source, while r represents the measured points. The lines represent the flux emanating from the sources and fluxes.
The total number of flux lines depends on the strength of the light source and is constant with increasing distance, where a greater density of flux lines (lines per unit area) means a stronger energy field. The density of flux lines is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source because the surface area of a sphere increases with the square of the radius. Thus the field intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “inverse-square law” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.