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Document Type
Research
Abstract
By considering a boundary value problem of Laplace's differential equation, we construct a gravitational potential function for an oblate spheroid using Newton's law of universal gravitation. We construct this function by retaining only four terms of an absolutely convergent series. The first of these four terms is the contribution due to a sphere while the other three terms contain coefficients which are functions of the oblateness of the spheroid.
Publication Date
1962
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
69
Issue
1
First Page
431
Last Page
435
Copyright
©1962 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Huehn, Kempton L.
(1962)
"Newtonian Gravitational Potential For An Oblate Spheroid,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 69(1), 431-435.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol69/iss1/66