What law did Robert Hooke experimentally confirm in physics?
Law of thermodynamics
Law of conservation of energy
Inverse square law of gravity
Newton's first law of motion
Answer
Robert Hooke approximated experimental confirmation that gravity follows an inverse square law. This means that the force of gravity decreases with the square of the distance between two objects.
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