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Treatise on natural philosophy (1912)

Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907, Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845-1912, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 91

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, 41, 4, 3-9, 3-8, 37, 35, 3, 2-5, 2; the value of// being unity. The corresponding equipotential surfaces are the surfacestraced by these curves, if the whole diagram is made to rotateround // as axis. Thus we see that for any values of G lessthan 4 the equipotential surface is one closed surface.… … matter be distributed over this surface, ^vith density at P equal R . to —, its attraction on any internal point will be zero; and on any external point, will be the same as that of /and /. 509. For each value of C greater than 4, the equipotentialsurface consists of two detached ovals…

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