Potentials of potatoes: A surprise in Newtonian Gravity
| dc.contributor.author | Padmanabhan, T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-01T11:49:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-01T11:49:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | It is well known in Newtonian gravity that a spherically symmetric density distribution produces a force out side it which falls as the square of the distance. Surprisingly, the converse is not true ! Just because the force falls as inverse square out side a density distribution, you can not conclude that it must be spherically symmetric. This article, first in a news series, explores this and related issues. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11007/56 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Indian Academy of Sciences | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Snippets of Physics: A series of articles describing curiosities in theoretical physics;Resonance;Vol. 13, 2008 | |
| dc.subject | Potatoes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Planet | en_US |
| dc.title | Potentials of potatoes: A surprise in Newtonian Gravity | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |