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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
4 pages, Latex file. More typos corrected