An exercise on Gauss' law for gravitation: The Flat Earth model
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TL;DR
This paper explores the application of Gauss' law to gravitational fields within flat and hollow Earth models to serve as educational examples.
Contribution
It introduces flat and hollow Earth models as novel pedagogical tools for understanding Gauss' law in gravity.
Findings
Flat Earth model demonstrates gravitational field behavior using Gauss' law.
Hollow Earth model illustrates gravitational effects in non-spherical mass distributions.
Educational value in contrasting traditional and alternative Earth models.
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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