PHYS2250 Notes-5
PHYS2250 Notes-5
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9.6 Equilibrium of rigid body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
9.7 Non-equilibrium situation: pure rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
9.8 Non-equilibrium situation: rotational and translational motion . . . . . . . 161
13 Gravitation 217
13.1 Newton’s law of universal gravitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
13.2 Gravitational field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
13.3 Gravitational force due to a spherical shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
13.4 Gravitational field due to the earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
13.5 Gravitational potential energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
13.6 Potential energy of many-particle system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
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