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Grade 11General Physics

find the work required to explode the earth into very small fragments seperated to infinity.

Profile image of Abhishek  Arora
15 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of vinay AskiitiansExpert-IITD
15 Years ago

Dear Abhishek

This will be equal to the gravitational self potential energy of earth, for a solid sphere it is given by

Us = -3GM2 /5R

All the best.

vinay

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