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solution

We use the parallel axis theorem, eqn. 1.55. Here the axis has been shifted by the radius of the sphere so d=R, and we already saw in example 1.4.7 that tex2html_wrap_inline887 . So

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