Pull Your Fair Share (Part 2)

Consider a solid sphere of radius R R and uniform mass density. We measure the gravitational field strength at a test point located a distance of d = 2 R d = 2 R from the center of the sphere.

What percentage of the field comes from the outer half of the sphere by radial distance, i.e. from the part where R 2 (distance from center) R ? \frac{R}{2}\leq \text{(distance from center)} \leq R\,?

Note: There is no ambient gravity.


The answer is 87.5.

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