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solution

This problem is so simple, we can think about it in terms of discrete masses.

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but all the tex2html_wrap_inline683 's are the same and equal to R. So we can factor out the radii,

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But tex2html_wrap_inline737 is just the total mass M. Therefore

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Joshua Deutsch
Wed Jan 22 17:07:34 PST 1997