Recent content by maddys_daddy

turin, Thanks, I think I can understand that. However, when I click on the link to your .gif, I get a "you need to login to view this" message--well, I am! Oh, well, I'll take that up with the admins. ZapperZ, FWIW, I'm in first year college physics for engineers (PHYS141 @ UoArizona). Next...

Can someone please give me a qualitative justification for the gravitational field inside a uniform hollow sphere being zero? I'm having a lot of trouble understanding this. Prof. said (in class) not to worry about the higher order polynomials involved, just be concerned with it...