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If Earth were hollow bur still had the same mass and same

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If Earth were hollow but still had the same mass and radius, would your weight in your present location be greater than, less than, or the same as it is now? Discuss and explain.

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QUESTION:

If Earth were hollow but still had the same mass and radius, would your weight in your present location be greater than, less than, or the same as it is now? Discuss and explain.

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Newton's law of universal gravitation states that the gravitational force is proportional to the product of masses of the objects and inversely proportional to their distance squared.

Where  is gravitational constant,  and  are the masses of each object and  is the distance between them.

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