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Hypothetical situation in which, for simplification, only some physical aspects are considered in order to further understand or reveal contradictions between the laws governing them.
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Ambiguity in applying Newton's shell theorem in an infinite homogeneous universe
Newton's shell theorem has two corollaries:
The gravitational attraction of a spherically symmetric body acts as if all its mass were concentrated at the center, and
The gravitational acceleration i …
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