8.10 In the following two exercises, choose the correct answer from among the given ones:

The gravitational intensity at the centre of a hemispherical shell of uniform mass density has the direction indicated by the arrow (see Fig 8.12) (i) a (ii) b (iii) c (iv) 0

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Gravitational potential (V) is constant at all points in a spherical shell. Hence the gravitational gradient ( dVdr) is zero everywhere inside the spherical shell. The gravitational potential gradient is equal to the negative of gravitational intensity. Hence intensity is also zero at all points inside t

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