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A Determination Of The Earth's Gravity Field In Spheroidal Coordinates, M. Spencer Hamilton Jr.
A Determination Of The Earth's Gravity Field In Spheroidal Coordinates, M. Spencer Hamilton Jr.
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The earth's gravity field G * at a point P in the region surrounding the earth's surface is defined as the force acting on a unit mass concentrated at P. This is a force resulting from two components: (1) G1 due to the gravitational attraction of the earth's mass, and (2) G2 due to the earth's rotation.
As a result of Newton's law of gravitation, G1 can be written in integral form as follows:
G1 = k ( (V ( rdm/r3
where r = PQ, r = |r|, Q is a point which ranges …