Engineering Physics Annotation << Back THE LAW OF GRAVITATION THAT UNIFIES THE NEWTON’S GRAVITATIONAL FORCE AND REPULSIVE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE A.A. KOLESNIKOV, E.A. KOLESNIKOV, V.F. KLIMENKOVA We present the results of measurement of the gravitational force between two thin copper plates with a torsion balance. We found experimentally, that the repulsive gravitational force exceeds the Newton’s attractive gravitational force between two single mass points from a distance of 0.01 m. Based on the results of a measurement of the gravitational force we propose the alternative expression of the gravitational force composed of two forces: the Newton’s attractive gravitational force and the repulsive gravitational force. We determined that the repulsive gravitational force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the fi fth power of the distance between them. The observed quantity of the repulsive gravitational constant is 8·10–17 m6·s–2·kg–1. The absence of the repulsive gravitational force in the classical equation of the gravitational force acting between masses from a distance of a few to tens centimeters leads to the measurements inconsistent of the gravitational constant in forth decimal place. Up to the present day, this reason constitutes a bar to gravitational constant measurement accuracy improvement. Keywords: the gravitational force, the gravitational constant, torsion balance. Contacts: E-mail: kolesnikovalex.gm@gmail.com Pp. 74-80.