Gravity in a Sphere

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 08:49:59 +0530, Saatvik Agarwal
wrote:
> How did you come to that? Doesn't gravity decrease linearly as we go
> closer to the spin axis?

Linear with distance, not angle.

The distance from the axis in a spherical habitat goes as r *
cos(theta) where r is the radius of the habitat.

cos(60) = 0.5

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