Gravity of a spherical shell

This sheet displays a change in proportional gravitational acceleration caused by an infinitely thin shell on a point that is h units away from the center of the shell with radius r. The TestRate is just a variable to slow the change in h down to look at specific values.

 

Patrick Fitzgerald

 
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gravity  infinitesimal  integration  shell  sphere 
Grupo destino (edad)
14 – 19+
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English
 
 
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