Both Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity describe gravitation in terms of geodesics.TrueFalse

Answer: True

Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Einstein's Theory of General Relativity both conceptualize gravitation, but they approach it from different perspectives.

1. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation describes gravity as a force between two masses, where the gravitational attraction depends on the mass of the objects and the distance between them. While it does not explicitly use the concept of geodesics, it implies a curvilinear influence that changes the path of objects in motion within a gravitational field.

2. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, on the other hand, directly describes gravity in terms of the curvature of spacetime. In this framework, objects move along geodesics, which are the straightest possible paths in curved spacetime. Therefore, it explicitly incorporates the idea of geodesics in its description of gravitational interaction.

Since both theories ultimately relate the movement of objects in a gravitational field to curvature and paths (in the case of General Relativity, these paths are geodesics), the statement is True.