Dyadic spherical shells with inverse-radius density scaling

ID: dyadic-spherical-shells-with-inverse-radius-density-scaling

Suppose the shell has mass density . Its mass is , by integrating . Summing the geometric series gives total mass . At the enclosed shells have indices , so the enclosed mass is the total mass times . The magnitude of the Newtonian gravitational field at every such boundary is therefore the same, . This does not assert that the field is constant throughout each shell.

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