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Consider a spherical shell of material of uniform density,
with radius R and total mass M.
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Calculate the acceleration due to gravity inside the shell
using Gauss's Law.
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Redo the calculation using Newton's point-mass formula.
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Calculate the acceleration due to gravity outside the shell
using Gauss's Law.
Bryan J. Mendez
Fri Aug 27 17:24:54 PDT 1999