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I wonder if it would make sense to add a sort of standard deviation to the 5.5 g/cm^3 , or is it mostly uniform at that value? And his... -
marc873a replied to the thread How did Cavendish find the density of the Earth?.Oh, so he just found the ratio between attraction between the lead balls and the attraction between the earth and another object? But...
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marc873a replied to the thread How did Cavendish find the density of the Earth?.Well, using the formulas I have seen so far, the density is calculated using the mass of the earth or G, and G is estimated using the...
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marc873a replied to the thread How did Cavendish find the density of the Earth?.You sure? As you probably saw, a lot of sources says he didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment...
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marc873a posted the thread How did Cavendish find the density of the Earth? in Introductory Physics Homework Help.I'm trying to find how Cavendish got the density of the earth to 5,48 times the density of water. In all of the YouTube videos and...