The potential for a homogeneous spheroid in a spheroidal coordinate system. I. At an exterior point

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/21/22/026zbMath0662.31007OpenAlexW2082578770MaRDI QIDQ3810910

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Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/21/22/026

zbMATH Keywords

Legendre functionsexternal potentialgravitational potentialnumerical comparisonequipotential surfacesastronomical bodyhomogeneous spheroidreciprocal of the distancespheroidal shape

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) Potentials, prospecting (86A20) Potentials and capacities, extremal length and related notions in higher dimensions (31B15)

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