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An exercise on Gauss' law for gravitation: The Flat Earth model

Popular Physics 2015-06-15 v3 Physics Education

Abstract

We discuss the flat and hollow models of the Earth as a pedagogical example of the application of Gauss' law to the gravitational field.

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@article{arxiv.1305.0393,
  title  = {An exercise on Gauss' law for gravitation: The Flat Earth model},
  author = {A C Tort},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0393},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, Latex file. More typos corrected