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Well I'm trying to calculate gravitational potential over the x-surface above a buried object. I would think that I would derive my integral in terms of dx from x=0(area directly above meteorite) to some positive value and do the same for a symmetric negative value. I'd define this area as my...

Homework Statement A meteorite impacts a flat-tabular Earth (with a density of 6gm/cm^3). During transit, the meteorite is observed to have a density of 8 gm/cm^3 and to be a perfect sphere of radius 1km. The meteorite penetrates the flat Earth to an unknown depth to center mass, z_0; z_0...