Chasles' theorem (gravitation)

For other uses, see Chasles' theorem (disambiguation).

In gravitation, Chasles' theorem says that the Newtonian gravitational attraction of a spherical shell, outside of that shell, is equivalent mathematically to the attraction of a point mass.^[1]

The theorem is attributed to Michel Chasles (1793–1880).

References

↑ Peirce, Benjamin (1855). A System of Analytic Mechanics. p. 104.

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