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Not really; I understand there is a relationship between work and the volume of an object. I'm struggling to visualize the problem though.

Homework Statement "How much energy is released when a sphere of constant density (p) with mass (M) and radius (R) is put together gravitationally? What you should do is to think of the energy released when a shell is brought in from infinite distance (where potential energy of zero) to the...