1) The document discusses concepts related to gravitation including Newton's law of universal gravitation, gravitational potentials and fields, and spherical harmonics.
2) Gravitation potentials can be used to describe the gravitational field generated by point masses or continuous mass distributions, such as a uniform spherical distribution.
3) Spherical harmonics allow the gravitational potential to be expressed as the sum of terms involving associated Legendre functions, enabling description of more complex mass distributions.