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I posted it in the introductory physics section because its really about a simple subject, but this problem is showing itself to be extremely hard to solve (at least for me). I'm really worried because this question will have some influence on my score at the college, and no one in my classroom...

First of all, I would like the deduction of the problem to be made with no aproximations, and second, I really can't see how this is going to help me, if you could write the equation for your suggestion i would apreciate.

I followed my professor's solution method, and calculated C = po + ρGM/R1, R1 being the small radius of the Earth's ellipsoid, then, I made p(x,z) = po, which led me to GM/R1 = w^2x^2/2 + GM/√(x^2 + z^2) I was hopping that the ellipse equation would emerge naturally (as the circle equation did...

Homework Statement I'm an engineering student, and my professor of the mechanics course gave a homework to my class last week, we were intended to calculate the real shape of the Earth (as an ellipsoid) by taking the centrifugal force in account, using the equation a' = a -wX(wXr). For that...